Popular Science Story On Connection Between Nanodiamonds and Mammal Extinctions
UMaine research into the connection between nanodiamonds found in Greenland ice and a climatic event 12,900 years ago that occurred around the same time as the disappearance of animals such as mammoths and saber-toothed tigers was cited in PopSci.com, the online version of Popular Science magazine. Scientists from UMaine’s Climate Change Institute took samples from the Greenland ice sheet and helped approximate the age of the samples.