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As climate temperature rises, snow and ice melting reveals how the Earth appears and what happened in the non -far past. A group of scientists has discovered one of that such as nearly 6000 years.
What is happening?
Researchers from Montana State University, the American Geological Survey, and other institutions found about 30 trees, 180 meters above the current trailer in the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming, CBC Radio I mentioned. White pine trees were discovered on the Beartoth Plateau, and the results were detailed in The facts of the National Academy of Sciences.
“We are really surprised to find a forest that came out of the ice margins … it was great,” said Cathy Whitig.
The dating routes showed “tall” trees, about 10 inches around them, between the ages of 540 and 5,950 years. They were killed at an increasing correction of snow where the climate cools.
“As a scientist, I feel overwhelmed because it is a window in the past. It tells us what this high -lifting environment was like 6000 years,” Whitke told CBC. “… But as a person worries about the future, climate change, and what these areas in the Alps will appear to me, it makes me really sad. These are the ice stains melt, and perhaps there will be no other decades.”
Why is this important?
Anxiety is that such operations, which took thousands of years, takes only decades today. Whitke said that the environment is already warmer than it was when the trees began to grow. The global high temperature – led by dirty fuel burning for energy – melts ice, expanding the seas, and causes increasingly frequent and severe weather.
Whitke said that the high height in the region makes it vulnerable to the effects of the changing climate. It will not take a lot of warming to turn the tundra into a forest, and it is likely that it will ski three times in the past as these old trees stood once – if the fire or dehydration did not interfere.
There will be less snow, snow will melt, and a source of water will disappear, as Rocky is home to my water important. This really happens, and it will only make the West Drier what is already.
What is done about the changing climate?
Contaminated toxic gases that are a secondary result of dirty energy surrounds the ground such as a blanket, besieging heat and Harm our health Directly Asthma, heart problems, cancer And more than that indirectly Heat strokes, kidney injuries and deathAnd more.
This type of research shows what can change if the climate becomes colder or more warmer. To create a more healthy and safe future, we can invest in clean energy projects such as Solar panels or Solar communityAnd make ecological systems more flexible than before Replace the grass with natural ground coverAnd Stripping.
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