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Geosciences Column: The best spots to hunt for ancient ice cores

Olivia Trani July 13, 2018

Where in the world can you find some of Earth’s oldest ice? That is the question a team of French and US scientists aimed to answer. They recently identified spots in East Antarctica that likely have the right conditions to harbor ice that formed 1.5 million years ago. Scientists hope that obtaining and analysing an …[Read More]

Geosciences Column: The hunt for Antarctica’s oldest time capsule

Ruth Amey January 12, 2018

The thick packs of ice that pepper high peak of the world’s mountains and stretch far across the poles make an unusual time capsule. As it forms, air bubbles are trapped in the ice, allowing scientists to peer into the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere long ago. Today’s Geosciences Column is brought to you by …[Read More]