Seeking Earth's past by drilling in remote Arctic

Drilling by an international team of palaeoclimatologists to retrieve sediment and meteorite-impact rocks began in mid-March under a frozen Siberian lake, with a goal to retrieve the longest continuous climate data ever collected for the Arctic, over 3.6 million years. Within a few days of the drill hitting sediment, scientists at Lake El'gygytgyn, 62 miles north of the Arctic Circle, had reached down more than 65 metres, according to University of Massachusetts Amherst geoscientist Julie Brigham-Grette, lead scientist. She said, 'We are just passing 1.0 million years in the record, with 100 percent recovery'...

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