A large New Zealand-led team of researchers, engineers and drillers is hopefully just weeks away from starting drilling on an ambitious project to retrieve a deep sediment core from a remote area of Antarctica.
Drilling deep into a remote part of Antarctica looking for clues to how fast the ice will melt
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