Greenland=Really Green

Research has shown that Greenland did once have green landscapes a half million years ago. Research was gathered in south central Greenland by drilling through ice 1.2 miles thick. Traces of DNA were found that gave traces of several species of trees, such as pine and yew, as well as insects such as butterflies and moths.

"These findings allow us to make a more accurate environmental reconstruction of the time period from which these samples were taken, and what we’ve learned is that this part of the world was significantly warmer than most people thought," Martin Sharp, a glaciologist at the University of Alberta, Canada, and a co-author of the paper, said in a statement.

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