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A curator at the National Ice Core Laboratory holds a one-meter section of an ice core in a vast library of ice cores funded by the U.S. NSF.

Some researchers receiving grants from the US National Science Foundation use its ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado, to store samples. Credit: Jim West/Alamy

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01263-0

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