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Vikings

Logs, sticks, and branches that washed up on the shores of Iceland are piled on a beach.
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Melting Sea Ice May Mean the End of Driftwood in Iceland

Richard Sima, freelance science writer by Richard J. Sima 25 August 202224 March 2023

Driftwood floats thousands of kilometers from Siberia to Iceland, but it may drift no longer by 2060 due to climate change.

Scientists ride a boat on a lake in Greenland.
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Evidence of Drought Provides Clues to a Viking Mystery

Korena Di Roma Howley, Science Writer by Korena Di Roma Howley 4 August 202224 March 2023

A persistent drying trend, not plunging temperatures, may have played a role in the unexplained disappearance of Norse settlers from Greenland, according to researchers.

Photo of a scientific raft used to extract sediment cores from Caldeirao Lake on Corvo Island, Azores.
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Sediments Suggest Vikings May Have Been the First to Settle the Azores

by Santiago Flórez 4 January 20224 October 2022

A multidisciplinary team studying lake sediments and climate change found evidence that the archipelago was inhabited 700 years earlier than historical sources claim.

A small flock of sheep graze by the water’s edge in the Faroe Islands.
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Ancient Eruptions Reveal Earliest Settlers on the Faroe Islands

by Freda Kreier 16 December 202120 December 2021

Lake sediment is helping scientists resolve a decades-long historical mystery.

A reenactor works on a Viking farm at a living history museum in Sweden.
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Food Security Lessons from the Vikings

by James Dacey 29 June 202115 March 2023

Scandinavian societies of the first millennium adapted their farming practices to volcano-driven climate changes.

Photograph of an ancient Norse archeological site, called Anavik, in western Greenland
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Global Warming Is Conquering the Vikings

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 27 August 201916 December 2021

Ancient Arctic artifacts are disappearing as warming unfurls.

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