PARIS: Locked up in about 140 metres (460 feet) of ice capping a Bolivian mountain lie 18,000 years of climate history, dating back to an epoch when humans were only just learning to farm.
But this precious archive of environmental change since the last Ice Age is melting fast, to the despair of scientists.
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