Last Interglacial: warming amplified in mountain environments

Speleothems turned out to be a great stroke of luck: dripstones from two caves in the Swiss Alps provide for the first time a continuous reconstruction of temperatures during the Last Interglacial period. A new study shows that high alpine regions were affected by stronger temperature increases than lower altitudes.

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