Tag: East Antartica

• Saturday, November 19th 2016 - 12:02 UTC

  European scientists in Antarctica trying to locate the oldest ice on Earth

  

  A team of European scientists heads to East Antarctica this month to locate the oldest ice on Earth. The team is part of an EU-funded research consortium from ten European countries whose aim is to search for a suitable site to drill an ice core to capture 1.5 million years of Earth’s climate history.