Ice core may hold answers to mysteries of Earth’s past
This week, uncover some of the oldest ice on Earth, follow a dinosaur highway, learn how Pluto sealed the capture of its moon Charon with a “kiss,” and more.
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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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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 ...
Scientists link abrupt climate change with increased wildfires from study of ancient ice
A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.
How we know humans are causing climate change
The climate has changed in the past, long before humans, so how do scientists know our recent warming is caused by man?
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Australian Antarctic Division starts pilot drill for world’s oldest ice core
Last week, the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) began the pilot drill for the Million Year Ice Core Project (MYIC), a ...
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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.
Scientists drill a 1.2-million-year-old ice core in Antarctica
In this edition of the Science for All newsletter, Priyali Prakash writes on a 1.2-million-year-old ice core in Antarctica ...
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Speleothem and ice cores: Natural climate archives offer new insights into the climate history of central Europe
The synchronization of data from two natural climate archives -- a speleothem from the Herbstlabyrinth Cave in Hesse (Germany) and ice cores from Greenland -- offers new insights into the chronology ...