Scientists say they have drilled deeper than ever beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, peering back millions of years to ...
A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every ...
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Team of scientists retrieve massive Antarctic core sample to better understand warming planet
Under bone-chilling conditions, an international team of scientists has unlocked the secrets to better understand a rapidly-warming planet.
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Researchers retrieve the deepest-ever rock core from beneath Antarctica's ice. It holds clues about the Earth's past—and future
Researchers are looking into our planet’s past to understand its future. Just like archaeologists investigate layers of dirt for ancient artifacts, geologists analyze layers in cores—tube-shaped ...
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ROME (AP) -- Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth's atmosphere in a frozen vault for future ...
Stanislav Kutuzov felt the drillhead he was controlling smash into the rock more than 100 metres below him high on a glacier in the Pamir peaks of Tajikistan. The ice core samples it took could help ...
Since the samples arrived in November, his team has worked in freezing storage facilities to log the density, alignment of snow grains, and the structure of ice layers. In December, when AFP visited, ...
A researcher at Japan's Hokkaido University Institute of Low Temperature Science cuts a slice from an ice core sample taken from a glacier in the Pamir mountain range ...
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