From Antarctica to Brussels, Hunting Climate Clues in Old Ice

From Antarctica to Brussels, hunting climate clues in old ice

In a small, refrigerated room at a Brussels university, parka-wearing scientists chop up Antarctic ice cores tens of thousands of years old in search of clues to our planet's changing climate. "We want to know a lot about the climates of the past because we can use it as an analogy for what can happen in the future," said Harry Zekollari, a glaciologist at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

From Antarctica To Brussels, Hunting Climate Clues In Old Ice

Ice dating back millions of years can be found deep inside Antarctica, close to the South Pole, buried under kilometres of fresher ice and snow.