About this episode

The episode explores the extraction of ancient air from Antarctic ice cores to understand historical climate shifts and their implications for modern society.

Send us Fan Mail We follow the 2,800-meter Antarctic ice core from Little Dome C to a -50°C lab in University of Bern, tracing how scientists extract ancient air to probe the Mid-Pleistocene transition and the limits of abrupt climate change. The story links field grit, laser sublimation, and CO2 records to the risks facing modern societies. If you would like to see the Antarctic ice in a video and read the collection on this topic, and more stories, please visit Swissinfo Science. Jou...

Topics covered

• Antarctic ice
• CO2 records
• climate change
• Mid-Pleistocene transition
• scientific research

Keywords

• Antarctic ice core
• climate solutions
• CO2
• climate shifts
• scientific extraction

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SWI swissinfo.ch

Places: Antarctic, University of Bern

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