European scientists spent 4 year drilling in remote site in Antarctica to get to Earth's oldest ice
The European team spent four years drilling at the remote Little Dome C site, located on the Antarctic plateau in the eastern part of the continent at an altitude of nearly 3,200 meters. According to ...
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Million-year-old ice drilling for crucial climate data
Australian scientists have started drilling in Antarctica for million-year-old ice as they try to shed light on the Earth's ...
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Scientists Drill Ice Core–2 Miles Down–Extracting 1.2 Million Years of Climate Record On Earth
Scientists in the Antarctic have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice—drilling down 1.7 miles for ice samples a million years old.
The 18 things (not necessarily big) that made Australia what it is today
From a giant ram to Ned Kelly’s armour, these key treasures perfectly capture our pop culture, history and achievements as a ...
How is Antarctica melting, exactly? Crucial details are beginning to come into focus
The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometers thick on average and covering nearly twice the ...
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Could These Ancient Artifacts Have Been Created to End a Volcanic Winter?
Ice core analysis from Greenland reveals volcanic upheaval that coincides with the creation of mysterious "sunstones" in ...
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A Volcano Wiped Out Sunlight 5,000 Years Ago, Triggering Strange Sacrifices
Teaming up with climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute, Iversen and his colleagues found that ice cores in both ...
Antarctic scientists extract world’s oldest ice
Antarctic scientists have extracted what is believed to be the world's oldest ice. The international team successfully ...
Scientists Used a 1.7-Mile-Long ‘Time Machine’ to See Into Earth’s Climate Past
“We have a strong indication that the uppermost 2,480 meters contain a climate record that goes back to 1.2 million years in ...
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Ice core 2-miles-deep may expose the threat that almost wiped out our ancestors
Scientists drilled a 2-mile-deep ice core in Antarctica, allowing them to peer back in time at Earth's climate over 1.2 ...
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Parts of oldest ice core to arrive in Switzerland from the Antarctic
Parts of the oldest ice core ever recovered will arrive at the University of Bern from Antarctica in the middle of summer.
Ancient Ice Core from Antarctica May Reveal Climate Mysteries from 1.2 Million Years Ago
A team of scientists has uncovered a million-year-old ice core in Antarctica that could unlock critical climate history ...