CORVALLIS, Ore. — A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of East Antarctica. The 6-million-year-old ice and the tiny air...

Uma equipe norte-americana, liderada pelo Centro de Ciência e Tecnologia da National Science Foundation (NSF COLDEX), identificou, no início de outubro, uma

After a few weeks of settling into Antarctica, getting used to the time zone differences, and finalizing equipment preparation, our first field team has finally made it to their field site: the Allan ...

باحثون يقومون بإجراء تدريبات في منطقة آلان هيلز في القارة القطبية الجنوبية. تم دعم هذا العمل من قبل مركز NSF لاستكشاف أقدم الجليد، أو COLDEX. (رصيد الصورة: تصوير جوليا ماركس بيترسون، كولدكس) استخرج العلماء قطعة جليد عمرها 6 ملايين سنة من القارة القطبية الجنوبية - وهي أقدم جليد تم اكتشافه بشكل مباشر على الإطلاق - وهي تساعدهم على إعادة بناء مناخ الأرض القديم. يبلغ عمر الجليد الذي حطم الرقم القياسي، إلى جانب فقاعات الهواء المحبوسة بداخله، أكثر من ضعف عمر أقدم عينات الجليد المعروفة سابقًا، والتي يبلغ عمرها حوالي 2.7 مليون سنة، وفقًا لدراسة جديدة نُشرت في 28 أكتوبر في المجلة.

Researchers from the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (COLDEX), led by Sarah Shackleton of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and John Higgins from

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of East Antarctica.

Allan Hills, 2022-2023. Credit: Julia Marks Peterson, COLDEX

A global race is on to drill for the oldest known layers of Antarctic ice so researchers can peer back in time to a warmer climate to better understand the planet’s hotter future

Researchers setting up a drill in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica. This work was supported by the NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration, or COLDEX. (Image credit: Photo by Julia Marks Peterson, COLDEX) Scientists have pulled a 6 million-year-old chunk of ice out of Antarctica — the oldest directly dated ice ever found — and it's helping them to reconstruct Earth's ancient climate.

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A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of East Antarctica.

Jacob Chalif is part of a three-month mission with COLDEX — the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration — searching to record the Earth's climate history through ancient ice.

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Researchers setting up a drill in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica. This work was supported by the NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration, or COLDEX. (Image credit: Photo by Julia Marks Peterson, COLDEX) Scientists have pulled a 6 million-year-old chunk of ice out of Antarctica — the oldest directly dated ice ever found — and it's helping them to reconstruct Earth's ancient climate.