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Ancient Ice Levels

Ancient Ice Levels
Today, a massive sheet of ice covers nearly all of West Antarctica, but it hasn’t always been that way. Over the past few hundred thousand years, researchers think that the ice sheets have waxed and waned, varying in size as the region’s climate changed. To gather evidence of how dynamic the ice cover has been in the past, John Stone of the University of Washington and his team traveled to a remote region of the continent this past season.

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