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International team launch second attempt to drill deep for Antarctic climate clues
11 November 2024
An ambitious mission is underway for critical geological records to forecast future sea-level rise, with the first team members departing on a 1128 km journey over ice to set up…
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Antarctic frontier project ‘tantalisingly close’ to vital climate secrets
31 January 2024
An international team has successfully drilled through 580 metres of ice, obtained the longest sediment core ever retrieved from the remote Siple Coast, and gathered crucial information in their mission…
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Antarctic mission the discovery for our lifetime
08 November 2023
Recent science has shown that it is inevitable that the warming Southern Ocean will speed up the melting of parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) regardless of our…
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Drilling deep to see if we can save Earth’s largest ice shelf and minimise sea level rise
16 January 2023
An ambitious project, ‘Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2°C warming’, involves researchers from New Zealand, the United States, Republic of Korea, UK, Australia, Italy, Germany, Spain, and…