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Air and particles formed hundreds of thousands of years ago are trapped in the ice What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica.

A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.

“The air bubbles trapped within the ice core provide a direct snapshot of past atmospheric composition, including greenhouse gas concentrations like carbon dioxide and methane,” Barbante said ...