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Secrets Beneath the Ice
This documentary from NOVA takes a look at the project known as ANDRILL – an effort by leading scientists and engineers to drill into unprecedented depths in the Arctic Peninsula following a massive ice collapse in 2002, to determine whether more melting was in store, indicating that sea levels must be poised to rise to disastrous levels., An examination of the ANDRILL project, which is drilling deep beneath the Antarctic ice in order to gather information about Earth’s paleoenvironmental history. Scientists battle the elements in the harsh environment in order to retrieve rock cores that shed light on past climate changes and, perhaps, give a glimpse of what the planet’s future may be like.
