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Young Black man wearing cap studies rock while conducting field research on Wyoming landscape.

Zander Roman reads the rocks

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Climate scientist Alexzander “Zander” Roman knows his rocks.  Roman, a Ph.D. candidate in Earth and climate sciences at the University of Maine, is hunting rocks for clues to construct a timeline of the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age is estimated to have lasted from the 1300s through the mid-1800s, causing infamous famines in …

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University of Innsbruck scientists discover climate change clues in pollen from hundreds of thousands of years ago

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By Louise Kim and Jessica Savage   Medill Reports, Dec. 15, 2023     Gina Moseley scales mountains and explores remote lands all in the name of understanding how the climate has been changing across hundreds of thousands of years and how that impacts current accelerating change. “It’s really important to understand what the climate’s doing, what …

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