An intrepid scientist and her team were the first to venture into the Wulff Land caves—and they found surprising evidence of Greenland’s prehistoric past.
Paleoclimatologist and Changelings member Gina Moseley led a team of scientists to Greenland’s northernmost caves, including the Wulff Land Cave (shown here). They were searching for geological time capsules—mineral specimens called speleothems that hold the climate history of a distant, warmer past.
Read the National Geographic story by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee with stunning photographs by Robbie Shone.
The Northeast Greenland Caves Project was funded in part by the Global Climate Change Foundation.
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The Northeast Greenland Caves Project
Since their first expedition in 2015, the Greenland Caves Project has been pushing the boundaries of human knowledge and exploration in the world’s northernmost caves.