Greenland’s ancient landscape just emerged from beneath the ice—frozen in time for thousands of years. What scientists uncovered beneath the melting sheet wasn’t just rock, but a startling, well-preserved world that challenges everything experts thought about the island’s history.
Researchers studying ice cores from central Greenland have identified fossilized plant and insect material buried beneath roughly three kilometers of ice, evidence that the island’s interior was ice-free at least once within the past 1.1 million years. The discovery, published in 2024 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that the Greenland ice sheet has been less stable…