POLAR ICE CORES REVEAL TRAPPED “ANCIENT AIR” —
Bubbles of “ancient air” trapped in polar ice may reveal whether the modern industrial world is polluting the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. The air bubbles were found in cores drilled at depths down to 1,345 feet in the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps. The ice originated as snows that fell as long ago as ten centuries.
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