Ancient plant wax reveals how global warming affects methane in Arctic lakes

ScienceDaily
Sep 29, 2023, 5:10 pm89 pts
In a new study, researchers examined the waxy coatings of leaves preserved as organic molecules within sediment from the early-to-middle Holocene, a period of intense warming that occurred due to slow changes in Earth's orbit 11,700 to 4,200 years ago. They found that warming potentially could lead to a…

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