Glaciers Across the The Globe Are Melting—Except This One. It’s Growing.

An expedition earlier this year to the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan retrieved two ice cores from a glacier that seems to be ...
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Massive ice core is a ‘time machine’ that could help solve an ancient climate mystery, scientists say

An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample extended so deep that ...
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Scientists drill nearly 2 miles down to pull 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctic

An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, ...
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Antarctic Ice Core Unlocks 1.2 Million Years of Unbroken Climate History, Setting New Record

Humans have been recording the weather for thousands of years. Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 ...
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These ancient ice cores are more than a million years in the making

This week, these cylinder ice samples arrived in the UK for climate analysis, more than a million years after they captured some of the Earth's atmosphere at the time. Dr Liz Thomas leads the Ice ...

Greenland Ice Cap Vanished 7,000 Years Ago, and It Could Happen Again

Analysis of core samples extracted from beneath an ice sheet indicates that the region is extremely responsive to the temperatures characteristic of today’s interglacial period. Researchers involved ...
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Massive ice core is a ‘time machine’ that could help solve an ancient climate mystery, scientists say

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