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"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters ...