Unique ice, 1.5m year old, to be melted to unlock mystery

Georgina Rannard

Climate and science correspondent

Reporting fromBritish Antarctic Survey, Cambridge
PNRA/IPEV The end of an ice core suspended in a metal tube, inside a metal gulley. It is inside a large tent in Antarctica where the ice cores are being kept. On the left-hand side, there is a person wearing a bright red jacket and a bobble hat.PNRA/IPEV

The end of the ice cores are a 1.5 million year or even older time capsule

An ice core that may be older than 1.5 million years has arrived…

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