The two big fires combined have consumed over 36,000 acres (14,500 hectares), or 56 square miles (145 square km) - 2-1/2 times the land ... smoke lingered in the air. "This was a house that ...
Scientists Drill Nearly 2 Miles Down to Pull 1.2 Million-Year-Old Ice Core From Antarctic An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ...
Scientists have now retrieved the longest such documentation — an ice core nearly 2 miles long that captures about 1.2 million years of climate information. This record can help us better understand ...
The same team previously drilled a core about 800,000 years old. The latest drilling went 2.8 kilometers (about 1.7 miles) deep, with a team of 16 scientists and support personnel drilling each ...
penetrating nearly 2 miles (2.8 kilometers) to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice they say is at least 1.2 million years old.
Researchers say a collected sample is the longest continuous record of Earth’s past climate from an ice core Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Scientists have drilled 1.7 miles deep into Antarctica ...
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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An international team of scientists say they’ve drilled nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock, retrieving ...
An ice core drilled by a research team is displayed at Little Dome C field base in eastern Antarctica, during the cutting phase on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (PNRA/IPEV Beyond Epica via AP) ...