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Media Release: Landmark Research Project Discovers more than 1.2-Million-Year-long Ice Core

January 9, 2025 — 
From a remote site in Antarctica, an international team of scientists, including Dr. Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, from the University of Manitoba (UM), has achieved a historic milestone. The team successfully drilled a 2,800-meter-long ice core, reaching bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet and uncovering the longest continuous ice core record of past climate at more than 1.2 million-years-old.

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