Dr Scott Wing

Dr Scott Wing

Research Geologist and Curator of Paleobotany, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Environment

The past gives us a glimpse of our future, hotter planet

Fossil pollen preserved in rocks for 56 million years provides new insights into the consequences of carbon-fuelled global warming

Sciences & Technology

What ancient pollen tells us about future climate change

Pollen preserved in rocks for more than 56 million years reconstruct Earth’s major climatic transition that caused mass plant migration