Ancient lake cores reveal unprecedented 2012 Rwenzori fire and ecological shift

Ancient lake cores reveal unprecedented 2012 Rwenzori fire and ecological shift

For the past several years, Penn State geoscientist Sarah Ivory and her students have been among a team of scientists scaling the East African Rwenzori Mountains, collecting sediment core samples from lakes formed at the end of the last ice age as glaciers began receding in the region some 12,000 years ago.