Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine of Earth’s climate change (video)

“The ice of Antarctica is a calendar of climate change.”

Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate.

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