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What would a fish with feet look like? It could easily resemble the Acanthostega. Mineralized bones of this strange creature, unearthed in Greenland in 1987, tend to confirm the notion that fish did not crawl onto shores on their fins, says paleontologist Michael Coates of University College, London. Instead they probably developed limbs and feet that they used in the water for millions of years before they were capable of colonizing the land...
...proved to be, rather surprisingly, a , translation from the Danish. Peter Hoeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow enchanted reviewers and book buyers alike with its suspense -- a wise woman detective tries to track down a child's murderer -- and its eerie rendering of the landscapes and atmosphere of Greenland. This intense but accessible philosophical thriller spurred considerable interest in what Hoeg, 37, would do for an encore...
...indicate that humans were first-class polluters well before the Industrial Revolution. As early as 2,500 years ago, in fact, Greek and Roman smelters spewed enough lead to contaminate the entire northern hemisphere, according to a study by France's Domaine University that analyzed lead preserved deep in Greenland's ice. The oldest-ever toxic fallout, long suspected by other scientists, began with pollution from Central European silver refining and other post-Bronze Age industry, and lasted 800 years. With 400 tons of lead found in Greenland alone, the damage rivals that of the 20th century's main culprit...
...solipsistic imbalance distorts and threatens to destroy William T. Vollmann's brooding, idiosyncratic novel cycle, Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes. Corruption of native inhabitants by Europeans is the broad theme of this enormously ambitious project, and the first two volumes, The Ice-Shirt, about Greenland, and Fathers and Crows, about the settling of Quebec, presented the author's bleak argument with stinging force. What he argues for is a vision of absolute evil: civilization, native cultures not excepted, is a pestilence, and mankind is a monstrous curse laid upon nature...
...Dryas began, a huge North American lake (which no longer exists) began dumping Amazonian quantities of fresh water into the North Atlantic. The discharge stopped about 1,000 years later, as did the Younger Dryas. Broecker and Denton's model, says Penn State's Richard Alley, an expert on Greenland ice cores, "is probably the trigger for these abrupt changes...