Scientists drilled a 2-mile-deep ice core in Antarctica, allowing them to peer back in time at Earth's climate over 1.2 million years ago.

Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more than 200 days, drilling into the ice and processing the ice core at a remote site in East Antarctica called Little Dome C, with a balmy average summer temperature of -31 degrees Fahrenheit (-35 degrees Celsius).

An international team of scientists say they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice that's at least 1.2 million years old.

This newly extracted ice preserved a record of our planet’s climate history, continuous information on atmospheric temperatures, and some clear samples of old air with greenhouse gases. “This is the longest continuous record of our past climate from an ice core,

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Scientists have successfully extracted what is likely the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2 million years, from deep within Antarctica.

Scientists have discovered what is believed to be the world's oldest ice in Antarctica, dating back approximately 1.2 million years. Ice cores extracted and studied by a team of researchers could contain ancient air bubbles that provide crucial insights into Earth's climate history.

In a jaw-dropping feat, European scientists have pulled off something incredible: they’ve managed to extract ice that’s more than 1.2 million years old from the Antarctic ice sheet. This smashes the previous record of 800,