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Volume 10 Issue 6, June 2017

Models and proxy data diverge on the global temperature evolution of the Holocene, perhaps due to representation of the seasons. Isotopic analyses of stalagmites from the Ural Mountains suggest that winter climate dominated in the Eurasian interior. The image shows an active drip hanging from a soda-straw stalactite in Kinderlinskaya Cave, Russia, moments before it fell upon the stalagmite below.

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IMAGE: OLGA CHERVYATSOVA

COVER DESIGN: TULSI VORALIA

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