This article was focusing on a 12 year long project named ANDRILL. The goal of the project is to keep track of the stability of the ice sheets in Antarctica because the ice sheets are like a cork to a champagne bottle, they hold because huge land based flows of artic ice on the Antarctic continent. 100 scientists from all over the world work on this project because if the ice sheets melt, it can raise sea levels by 180ft. This can be a huge concern for everyone in the world. To get more information about the topic the scientist set 90 tons of drilling equipment on a floating piece of ice. Then they started drilling and collecting rocks that were potentially 20 million years old. The scientists were interested in the carbon dioxide levels in the samples because this can help them predict how fast the ice sheets will melt. Also, they were looking to see if they could relate different time period trends to our current trend. This would help with learning what would be coming in the future. In addition, since the ice sheets are cooled by the air and sea, a small change in temperature can also easily melt them. Overall, the scientist know the ice sheets are melting faster than they would like but the only thing we can do as humans is to be informed and create climate models to predict how much ice is going to melt.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160223143620.htm