Single-celled algae called diatoms live in lakes and provide a proxy for paleoclimate data. University of Arkansas professor Sonja Hausmann has linked changes in fossil diatom communities to sun spot cycles.

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reflects a climate-changing event at the end of the last Ice Age more than 8,000 years agoWho'd a thunk?
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