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Major UK supermarket launches £129-a-month weight loss jab club

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Manhunt after woman sexually assaulted in street near Tube station

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Dozens more Palestinians ‘shot dead by Israeli troops while seeking aid’

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Horrified reporter ‘steps on missing girl’s body’ while covering her case

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Fraudster conned own grandad out of £64,000 life savings leaving him ‘ruined’

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Posted in Antarctica Climate Change News UK News World

Scientists begin melting Earth’s oldest ice to unlock 1,500,000-year-old secrets

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Unassuming, icicle-like tubes could help answer mysteries about Earth’s climate.

They are the world’s oldest ice cores, which have just landed in the UK after being drilled from the depths of Antarctica.

While most of Britain is reeling from weeks of back-to-back heatwaves, scientists in Cambridge find out what the rare blocks of ice can reveal about climate change and our home planet.

But to get hold of the ice, they first had to drill for 1.7 miles down the ice sheet at the South Pole.

Dr Liz Thomas with the world's oldest ice.
Dr Liz Thomas holding the world’s oldest ice (Picture: PNRA: IPEV)

The giant stick of ice was then cut into more manageable chunks and transported to Europe.

Scientists hope the pieces will reveal why the planet’s climate cycle shifted more than a million years ago, helping to predict Earth’s future response to rising greenhouse gas.

Dr Liz Thomas, from the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, told Reuters: ‘We really are exploring a completely unknown time in our history.

‘We are hoping to unlock all these amazing secrets.’

Where the world's oldest ice core was stored.
How the ice cores were collected and stores over several years (Picture: PNRA: IPEV)

The new core ice, which was drilled near the Concordia research station in the ‘White Continent,’ beats the previous 800,000-year-old ice, which was drilled in the early 2000s.

Until now, scientists have relied on marine sediments to study the climate cycles. over millions of years.

But ice has a special feature invisible to the naked eye – entrapped bubbles showing the atmospheric conditions, amount of greenhouse gas in the air and chemical evidence of temperatures at the time when they were released.

And to not make the job too easy for the scientists, Antarctica is the only place on Earth where such a long record of the atmosphere is found.

The 1.5 million year old ice core tube being cut up.
The record-breaking ice was cut up and divided between between research labs across Europe (Picture: PNRA: IPEV)

Summer temperatures at the French-Italian Concordia station range from -30°C to -50°C, and can reach a brain-numbing -80°C in winter.

Dr Thomas continued: ‘Our data will yield the first continuous reconstructions of key environmental indicators—including atmospheric temperatures, wind patterns, sea ice extent, and marine productivity—spanning the past 1.5 million years.

‘This unprecedented ice core dataset will provide vital insights into the link between atmospheric CO₂ levels and climate during a previously uncharted period in Earth’s history, offering valuable context for predicting future climate change.’

Other Antarctica mysteries

The world’s largest ice sheet remains shrouded in mystery and intrigue as relatively little is still known about Antarctica.

Geologists believe the continent was once covered in rivers and forests.

Satellite data and radars revealed ridges and valleys, suggesting the icy no man’s land looked very different 34 million years ago.

Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists have their eyes set on Antarctica after Google Map sleuths believe they have found a secret door buried in the mountainside.

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.

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Mystery illness outbreak sweeps through Royal Caribbean cruise and leaves 134 sick

Several staff members also got sick.

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Man pockets £1,500,000 after accidentally buying two identical lottery tickets

Paul Corcoran accidentally doubled his winnings after entering the Powerball lottery twice

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Posted in Astronomy News Space Stars Tech UK News

Astronomers just casually witnessed the birth of a new solar system

Data captured by the ALMA telescope in Chile and the James Webb Space Telescope showed planets forming around a star in the first record of its kind.

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Tourist boat capsizes leaving at least three dead and 38 still missing

A frantic search-and-rescue operation is underway.

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War planes scrambled over Nato country after Russia launches latest barage

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How a generation-bending TikTok campaign saved a local boozer

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Trump sues newspaper for £7,500,000,000 over claims he sent Epstein ‘drawing of naked woman’

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Tomorrowland hit by second tragedy after woman dies at fire struck festival

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Posted in Air India News UK News World

Air India captain ‘cut fuel to engines before crash’

The aviation disaster killed 260 people after the passenger plane crashed into a college.

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Posted in Crime News News Prisons UK UK News

Child killer Ian Huntley’s cruel football shirt taunt inside prison

Ian Huntley is serving a life sentence for the murder of school girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, both 10.

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Vehicle crashes into Los Angeles crowd leaving 5 people fighting for life

Emergency services were called to Santa Monica Boulevard after an ‘unknown vehicle’ hit pedestrians

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Area 51 staff ‘left with fatal diseases’ after guarding top secret project

Security guards at Nevada Test and Training Range were handed a death sentence by government due to the presence of an ‘invisible killer’ on site, they have said.

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Posted in Crash News UK UK News

Pensioner dies after car crashes down embankment onto railway

The car had landed on its roof after a fall down the steep embankment in Harrogate (Picture: YappApp)

A man in his 70s has died after his car fell down an embankment onto the railway tracks in North Yorkshire.

The alarm was raised yester…

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Moment boy, 15, shot dead in front of children at family fun day in ‘Teletubbies Park’

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Posted in Crash Greater Manchester Police News Stockport UK UK News

Family pays tribute to man, 58, killed in M60 motorbike crash

‘A tragic loss of man taken too soon.’

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Amber warning for torrential rain and thunder issued as UK hit by downpours

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Posted in London Met Office News UK UK News UK weather Weather

Amber warning for torrential rain and thunder issued as UK hit by downpours

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Posted in Artificial Intelligence News Rock music Tech UK News

Mystery AI rock band with over 1,000,000 streams sparks confusion and warnings

1963 had The Beatles, and now in 2025 we get The Velvet Sundown.

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Posted in Artificial Intelligence News Rock music Tech UK News

Mystery AI rock band with over 1,000,000 streams sparks confusion and warnings

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