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Princeton University-led researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old ice cores from Antarctica -- the oldest yet recovered -- that provide the first direct observations of prehistoric atmospheric conditions and temperatures. They used data from the ice cores to answer long-held questions about how our current colder, longer glacial cycle emerged.

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(Photos by Sean Mackay, Boston University)

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