Big Leap In Quest To Get To Bottom Of Climate Ice Mystery

Barron's · last updated November 6, 2025 – 8:08 PM

Stanislav Kutuzov felt the drillhead he was controlling smash into the rock more than 100 metres below him high on a glacier in the Pamir peaks of Tajikistan. The ice core samples it took could help solve one of climate science’s great mysteries.

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