A joint US-Australian research team has collected ice core samples from Antarctica containing air bubbles dating back to the 1870s.<br /><br />Cool footage from January 2019, shows a drill dropping down the icy entrance through "centuries" to search for a handful of atoms that could reveal how well our atmosphere has been removing greenhouse gases and help solve one of the climate change's biggest challenges.<br /><br />From November 2018 to February 2019, the team set up drilling rigs in Law Dome, a large ice dome directly south of Cape Poinsett, Antarctica. <br /><br />Peter Neff, scientist and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Washington told Newsflare: "At the snowy Law Dome site, air of this age is reached at 240 meters depth. <br /><br />"The team was collecting large volumes of ice to investigate the process driving atmospheric removal of pollutants and the greenhouse gas methane -- and how it has changed during industrialisation over the last 150 years. <br /><br />"This oxidation process determines how long a heat-trapping molecule like methane can warm atmosphere."<br /><br />Neff (@icy_pete) posted the video to TikTok with the caption: "Antarctic #glacier ice has trapped air inside; bubbles that were once the space between fingers of snowflakes."
