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Mission for ancient climate clues beneath 500m of Antarctic ice gets underway
12 December 2025
LIAG researcher in the "on-ice team": An international team has set up camp on the ice 700 km from the nearest base to drill for sediment holding critical insights.
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Mission for ancient climate clues beneath 500 m of Antarctic ice gets underway
12 December 2025
A 29-strong team is in Antarctica this summer in a quest to uncover clues about how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will fair in a warming world.
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Mission for ancient climate clues beneath 500 m of Antarctic ice gets underway
12 December 2025
An international team has set up a remote camp on the ice 700 km from the nearest base, to drill for mud and rocks holding critical sea-level rise insights.
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Mission for ancient climate clues beneath 500 m of Antarctic ice gets underway
12 December 2025
An international team has set up a remote camp on the ice 700 km from the nearest base (Scott Base) to attempt to drill for mud and rocks holding critical climate insights.
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Mission for ancient climate clues beneath 500 m of Antarctic ice gets underway
12 December 2025
An international team including Kiel University aims at identifying future tipping points.
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Scientists take AI to Antarctica to examine ancient life
12 December 2025
One of the world’s newest technologies is heading to the coldest laboratory on Earth to help scientists examine traces of ancient ecosystems buried for centuries beneath Antarctica’s ice sheets.
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Mission for ancient climate clues beneath 500m of Antarctic ice gets underway
12 December 2025
A Colorado School of Mines researcher is part of an international team that has set up a remote Antarctic camp to attempt to drill for sediment holding critical climate insights.
Ross Shelf Reports
Drillers fly to Crary Ice Rise
12 December 2025
Following some challenges with the weather, our hot water drillers and most of our AIDD (Antarctic Intermediate Depth Drill) team have arrived at our deep-field scientific drilling site at Crary…
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Ancient Antarctic rivers challenge theory of a flat landscape, as mission for climate clues beneath Antarctic ice gets underway
12 December 2025
Pre-glacial West Antarctica was a rugged, uneven landscape, not a flat plain, reshaping our understanding of how its ice sheet formed and how it may behave in a warming climate.
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Binghamton University scientist seeks ancient climate clues under Antarctic ice
12 December 2025
Molly Patterson is the co-chief scientist of an international research expedition.