Barrels of ancient Antarctic air aim to track history of rare gas

Friday, December 13, 2019 - 10:10 in Earth & Climate

Ancient air samples from one of Antarctica’s snowiest ice core sites may add a new molecule to the record of changes to Earth’s atmosphere over the past century and a half, since the Industrial Revolution began burning fossil fuels on a massive scale. While carbon dioxide and methane are well known, researchers at the University … Continue reading Barrels of ancient Antarctic air aim to track history of rare gas

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