Styrofoam will outlive us all. This truth and others — baby ducks born in gobs of gasoline or strawberries that arrive at the grocery store already rotten — are testament to climate change’s effect on our lives. And according to a new paleoclimatology study, Greenland’s massive, melting ice sheet offers yet more evidence of how climate change will continue to alter human lives for centuries to come. We might not live to see exactly how, but the styrofoam certainly will.
