Capsule of 1765 air reveals ancient histories hidden under Antarctic ice
by Libby Brooks Scotland corrrespondent from Science | The Guardian on (#5QJDB)
Polar Zero exhibition in Glasgow features sculpture encasing air extracted from start of Industrial Revolution
An ampoule of Antarctic air from the year 1765 forms the centrepiece of a new exhibition that reveals the hidden histories contained in polar ice to visitors attending the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow.
The artist Wayne Binitie has spent the past five years undertaking an extraordinary collaboration with scientists of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), who drill, analyse and preserve cylinders of ice from deep in the ice sheet that record past climate change.
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