Andrew Christ

Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Geology, University of Vermont

Greenland tundra

Ancient leaves preserved under a mile of Greenland’s ice – and lost in a freezer for years – hold lessons about climate change

Losing the Greenland ice sheet would be catastrophic to humanity today. The melted ice would raise sea level by more than 20 feet. That would redraw coastlines worldwide.

March 16, 2021