'Like touching climate change': glaciers reveal records of the way the world was

Scientists drill for ice cores containing information on preindustrial pollutants, but they are in a race against timeHowling wind relentlessly shakes the white tent, pitched among mounds of snow at a height of 4,100m (13,450ft) on the Corbassi?re, an Alpine glacier situated on the northern slopes of Switzerland's Grand Combin massif.Inside are scientists from Venice's Ca' Foscari University and the institute of polar science at Italy's national research council (CNR). Continue reading...