Global Warming Could Make Antarctica Green Again, According To USC, JPL Scientists

The study in Nature Geoscience looked at leafy plants that thrived along Antarctica's coast 15 million years ago. Scientists from USC, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Louisiana State University examined sediment cores taken from the deep sea, under the Ross Ice Shelf.

What they found inside was plant material — and, on the leaves, wax. The wax traps chemical information about how those plants slurped up water, information which helped researchers reconstruct how rain fell millions of years ago. Read the full report here.

Source: by Molly Peterson, 89.3 KPCC.