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  1. Long-forgotten frozen #soilsample offers a warning for the future
    Excavated during the #ColdWar, through 4,560 feet of ice, the team kept drilling 12 more feet into the frozen, rocky soil. Scientists have known for awhile that the #Greenland #icesheet had mostly disappeared at some point in the past million years, but not precisely when. The timing—about 416,000 years ago, with largely ice-free conditions lasting for as much as 14,000 years—is important. arstechnica.com/science/2023/0 #climatechange