Drilling through 500 feet of floating ice into the Antarctic Ocean floor, climate scientists have retrieved a rare 23-million-year record of sediments that helps demonstrate why the planet’s southern ice shield could determine the fate of distant low-lying coastal areas.
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LITERAL 2 MIN LECTURAScientists See Converging Evidence of Antarctic Ice Retreat
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Resumen, sesgo y contexto.Drilling through 500 feet of floating ice into the Antarctic Ocean floor, climate scientists have retrieved a rare 23-million-year record of sediments that helps demonstrate why the planet’s southern...
A sediment core spanning millions of years and new modeling studies point to significant ice retreat under temperatures similar to today.
