Summary

An international team successfully drilled a 1.2-million-year-old ice core from Antarctica, reaching bedrock nearly 2 miles deep at Little Dome C.

The ice core will help scientists analyze Earth’s atmospheric and climate evolution, shedding light on changes in Ice Age cycles and greenhouse gas levels.

Preliminary findings indicate carbon dioxide levels today are 50% higher than at any point in the last 800,000 years.

Funded by the EU, the Beyond EPICA project highlights advancements in understanding past climates and human impacts on global warming.

  • SkaveRat
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    3 hours ago

    Ar[c]tisinal micro-plastic free ice cubes for the super rich’s cocktail parties

  • @[email protected]
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    294 hours ago

    Is this where they release the life ending microbe into the atmosphere wiping out the planet.

    • @Darkard
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      393 hours ago

      Don’t be getting people’s hopes up

      • sunzu2
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        103 hours ago

        I wonder if the elite bunkers and “ai” would save them from this

      • @seven_phone
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        43 hours ago

        How bad is the world we have created for ourselves that a zombie apocalypse sounds like quite a nice change.

  • @devfuuu
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    93 hours ago

    Hopefully they find the ancient stargate down there too.

  • @rhacer
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    13 hours ago

    And now it’s going to melt, and we have turned million year-old ice into a puddle.