Trees dating back almost 6000 years have come to scientists' attention due to ice melting in the Rocky mountains, offering a "time capsule" into the past ...

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Melting alpine ice in the Rocky Mountains has led to the discovery of a 5,900-year-old whitebark pine forest. Over 30 trees are estimated to have been found by scientists during an archaeological ...

Ice core data from places like Antarctica and Greenland suggest ... “telling us that people have been hunting in high-elevation environments for millennia”, she says.

“Most of our best long-term climate records come from Greenland and Antarctica,” paper co ... ice cores to study the history of high-elevation environments as preserved in the fossils and ...

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The territory's apparent barrenness belies its richness in key 21st-century resources — and this isn't the first time the United States has tried to take it.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), analyzes the remnants of a mature whitebark pine forest that once thrived at an elevation of 10,000 ... records come ...