Dr Scott Wing

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

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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

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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

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