A study evaluating the origins of shrubs and herbs on a group of islands in the Arctic Circle finds that seeds arrived from hundreds of kilometers away to restore plant communities
lost during the last ice age — all in a matter of a few thousand years.
In recent years researchers have been lowering their estimates of mass gained
during the
last Ice Age and lost ice mass during the recent deglaciati
Ice Age and
lost ice mass during the recent deglaciati
ice mass
during the recent deglaciation.