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Ice Reveals Climate History

Research offers window into changes

By Kate Rockwood, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 3, 2008 12:19 PM CDT

(Newser) – Over the next three summers in Greenland, a group of international scientists will unearth samples of the country’s ice core down to its very bedrock, in the hopes of painting a complete picture of Earth's changing climate. Each layer provides a dated mixture of... Read full story »

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