Quest begins to drill Antarcticas oldest ice – BBC News

Quest begins to drill Antarcticas oldest ice – BBC News

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“We believe this ice core will give us information on the climate of the past and on the greenhouse gases that were in the atmosphere during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), which happened between 900,000 and 1.2 million years ago,” said team-leader Carlo Barbante, the director of the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy.

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