Buried under the ice | Scientists came to Greenland on an unprecedented mission to drill for rocks that would reveal the fate of this fast-melting ice sheet.
Buried under the ice | Scientists came to Greenland on an unprecedented mission to drill for rocks that would reveal the fate of this fast-melting ice sheet.
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Scientists journeyed to Greenland in an unprecedented experiment to drill for rocks beneath the ice sheet. But a crack in the ice threatened their mission — and their ability to predict the fate of the warming world.
This is a detailed multi-media description of what it's like to collect one of the paleoclimate records we have. Past coverage of their results is here
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Fascinating read, thanks for sharing. It reminds me a little of the natural historians of the 1800s but with less colonialism.