Scientists from all over the world acquire data from sea ice cores drilled in Earth’s polar regions 1,2,3,4. An increasing number of the data sets acquired are becoming publicly available allowing ...

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Frozen deep beneath Antarctica and Greenland lies something remarkable. Tiny bubbles of ancient air, locked away in ice for hundreds of thousands of years, hold secrets about our planet's past.

As glaciers melt around the globe, scientists are racing to retrieve ice cores that contain key historical records of temperature and climate that are preserved in the ice. Researchers are also ...