For clues to future climate, head north

Courtesy UT - Office of Public Affairs  Fri, 05/15/2009 - 10:01am

Scientists struggling to understand how Earth's climate will change in the next few decades have neglected a potential treasure trove of information—sediments deposited in the ocean by major Arctic rivers such as the Colville and Mackenzie rivers—according to geoscientists at The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University.

The researchers' study was published in [...]


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