When the Ice Is Gone no-tag Brimming with joie de vivre

Brimming with joie de vivre and delightful detail

he doesn’t know exactly how much of a hornet’s nest he’s stirred up

Harriet Cullen has opened a window back into the remarkable story of her mother’s life from a rich cache of family diaries and letters

David Bohm

When the Ice Is Gone no-tag Brimming with joie de vivreIn 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the worlds first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. When geologist Paul Bierman and his team first melted a piece of this unique material, they were shocked to find perfectly preserved leaves, twigs and moss. That observation led them to a startling discovery: Greenlands ice sheet had melted naturally before, about 400,000 years ago. The remote islands ice was far more