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Published online 8 September 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040906-10
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Ice core reveals gentle start to last ice age
Traces of ancient life found beneath Greenland's ice sheet.
The last ice age began with gradual cooling rather than a dramatic climate crash, according to initial studies of the oldest Greenland ice core ever extracted. The core arms climate modellers with robust data to predict our own future.
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