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SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: It s chilly across the country today - highs of just 58 in Miami and 16 in Minneapolis, which makes Minnesota colder than Antarctica s McMurdo Station. But the cold weather doesn t last forever in the Twin Cities. And in Antarctica, it does. Ice there can last hundreds of thousands, even millions of years. And as NPR s Nell Greenfieldboyce reports, that makes Antarctica the perfect place to find some of the oldest ice in the world.
NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE, BYLINE: Just how old is the oldest ice on earth? John Higgins says, nobody really knows.
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