AFP – Australia announced plans to drill a 2,000 year-old ice core in the heart of Antarctica in a bid to retrieve a frozen record of how the planet has evolved and what might be in store…
Australian Environment Minister Tony Burke on Saturday said such drills were critically important to understanding how the climate has naturally varied to help predict future responses to global climate change.
“Ice cores provide the written history of our atmosphere and our water,” he said in announcing the project which will start with a French team traversing the site in December next year.
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