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Poppy Seed Found Beneath Ice Sheet Shows Greenland Vulnerable to Dramatic Melting

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Scientists have recovered an intact poppy seed and other plant remnants buried under two miles of ice in Greenland .

The finding indicates that during a prior warm era, Greenland was almost entirely ice-free.

The discovery suggests that the Greenland ice sheet had almost completely melted at some point in the last million years .

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formal

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English

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