When drilling at the Vostok site was completed in 1998, the borehole had reached a depth of 3,623 m, with an estimated 130 m of ice remaining to the lake surface. The top 3538 m of the core is ...
In a laboratory located on the campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Hu Huanting is engaged in a delicate dance with time itself. The 35-year-old oceanographer carefully picks up a small block of ...