Massive ice core is a ‘time machine’ that could help solve an ancient climate mystery, scientists say

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Frozen for 12,000 years, this Alpine ice core captures the rise of civilization

An ancient glacier high in the French Alps has revealed the oldest known ice in Western Europe—dating back over 12,000 years to the last Ice Age. This frozen archive, meticulously analyzed by ...
Phys.org

A volcano or a meteorite? New evidence sheds light on puzzling discovery in Greenland's ice sheet

Buried deep in Greenland's ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate. A sharp spike in platinum concentrations, discovered in an ice core (a cylinder of ...
Forbes

2-Mile-Deep Ice Core Reveals That Greenland Was Recently...Green

Arctic poppy (Papaver radicatum) flowering on rock, Disko-Bay, West-Greenland, Greenland. The heart of Greenland has recently been green. A two-mile-deep ice core from the very center of Greenland’s ...
The Telegraph

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 ...
KTVZ

Massive ice core is a ‘time machine’ that could help solve an ancient climate mystery, scientists say

(CNN) — 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 ...