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A Colorado freezer is out of space to store ice samples up to 4.5 million years old

Polar ice preserved at USGS warehouse is used to study climate history

USGS research geologist Natalie Kehrwald pulls out an ice core extratced from a glacier on Denali in Alaska, stored in a -40 degree freezer at the National Ice Core Facility at the U.S. Geological Survey regional headquarters in the Denver Federal Center on Thursday Nov. 30, 2023. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
USGS research geologist Natalie Kehrwald pulls out an ice core extratced from a glacier on Denali in Alaska, stored in a -40 degree freezer at the National Ice Core Facility at the U.S. Geological Survey regional headquarters in the Denver Federal Center on Thursday Nov. 30, 2023. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
Bruce Finley of The Denver Post
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A minus-40-degree vault concealed in a federal government warehouse west of Denver holds the climate science equivalent of gold: the United States' growing collection of ice from around a warming planet, half a million cylindrical cores up to 4.5 million years old. But now that freezer is full.
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