The first ice core drilling campaign of Beyond Epica-Oldest Ice has been successfully completed at the remote Little Dome C site in Antarctica – one of the most extreme places on Earth.

A team of scientists have drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock to reach ...

Scientists have successfully drilled an ice core in Antarctica nearly 1.2 million years old, reaching 2.8 kilometers deep. Analysis of this core is expected to reveal insights into how Earth's ...

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 ...

The latest drilling went 2.8 kilometers (about 1.7 ... Both Barbante and Scoto said that thanks to the analysis of the ice core of the previous Epica campaign they have assessed that ...

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The latest drilling went about 1.7 miles deep ... he said.Both Barbante and Scoto said that thanks to the analysis of the ice core of the previous Epica campaign they have assessed that ...

Drilling to retrieve a million-year-old ice core containing critical intel about the planet's climate has begun in earnest at a remote Antarctic outpost.

Last week, the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) began the pilot drill for the Million Year Ice Core Project (MYIC), a ...

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