Ice core samples show West Antarctic ice sheet survived the last interglacial event
An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...
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Ice Core Records Shed Light on a Volcanic Mystery
By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...
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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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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 ...
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Ice core may hold answers to mysteries of Earth’s past
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Antarctic ice sheet may be less vulnerable to collapse than expected
The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may have survived an even warmer period than it is experiencing now ...
Antarctic Ice Core Unlocks 1.2 Million Years of Unbroken Climate History, Setting New Record
Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more than 200 days, drilling into the ice and processing the ice core at a remote ...
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Scientists drill nearly 2 miles down to pull 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctic
An ice core drilled by a research team is displayed at Little Dome C field base in eastern Antarctica, during the cutting phase on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (PNRA/IPEV Beyond Epica via AP) An ...
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Antarctica historic milestone, successful drilling of a 2.800 meters long ice core, more than 1.2 million years old
by successfully drilling a 2800-metre-long ice core, consisting of ice from the Antarctic ice sheet which is more than 1.2 million years old. Funded by the European Commission and coordinated by ...
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Ice core may hold answers to mysteries of Earth’s past
One of the best ways to assemble the puzzle pieces of Earth’s past is hiding deep beneath its white polar sheets: ice cores. These frozen time capsules preserve air bubbles from thousands of ...