Pollen can help scientists track changes in vegetation through time, as they respond to moderations of the climate, be that glaciation or deglaciation with transitions into and out of ice ages.

Dr. Sandra Brugger examining a sample of concentrated ancient pollen extracted from an ice core that preserved atmospheric particles over 850 years. Photo credit: Jessi LeMay/DRI. The Greenland ice ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists from the Natural History Museum, London (United Kingdom), and the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, Grenoble (France), have found that some pollen has survived mass ...

Pollen and chemical proxies for landscape and environmental change 1159 to 2011 CE when the ice core was extracted, marking transitions through the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), Little Ice Age (LIA) and ...