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Antarctic team digs deep to predict climate future as frozen continent becomes research hub
2013-04-08 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Nancy Bertler and her team took a freezer to the coldest place on Earth, endured weeks of primitive living and risked spending the winter in Antarctic darkness, to go get ice -- ice that records our climate's past and could point to its future. They drilled out hundreds of ice cores, each slightly longer and wider than a baseball bat, from the half-mile-thick ice covering Antarctica's Roosevelt Island. The cores, which may total 150,000 years of snowfall, almost didn't survive the boat ride to...
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