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| | Oldest Antarctic ice core reveals climate history | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference |
 | | EPICA (European Ice Core Project in Antarctica) is a consortium of 10 European countries (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, UK). |
 | | The EPICA research team is using the unique climate record from ice cores to investigate the relationship between the chemistry of the atmosphere and climate changes over the past 740,000 years, especially the effects of carbon dioxide, methane and other components of the atmosphere. |
 | | EPICA contributes to the BAS core science programme SAGES (Signals in Antarctica of past global changes, see: www.antarctica.ac.uk/Science/Programmes/sages/), which uses the information from Antarctic ice cores and sediments to recreate past environments. |
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