 Western Australia has been in a devastating drought since the 1970s. The last place one would expect to find a clue to the mystery of the vanishing rain is at Law Dome, in the depths of an Antarctic blizzard. This video segment explains what ice cores can teach us about climates as far away as Australia. They are arguably the best record of past climate because of the huge range of things that they actually archive within the ice. Meet the scientists that are decoding layers of the ice cores.
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