Tropical climate in the Antarctic

(Goethe University Frankfurt) Knowledge of past episodes of global warmth can be used to better understand the relationship between climate change, variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide and the reaction of Earth's biosphere. An international team led by scientists from Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered an intense warming phase around 52 million years ago in drill cores obtained from the seafloor near Antarctica. The study published in Nature shows that tropical vegetation was growing on the coast of Antarctica.