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American scientists on the hunt for the oldest ice in Antarctica

Researchers from universities across the country are searching for a continuous core of ice that is 1.5 million years old — or even older. National environmental correspondent David Schechter reports air bubbles trapped inside that ice can tell scientists what the atmosphere was like then and help us understand our own changing climate today.
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