Media advance study of air bubbles in Antarctic ice co-authored by Kurbatov
ScienceDaily and Phys.org advanced a Rice University-led study of air bubbles in Antarctic ice co-authored by Andrei Kurbatov, an associate professor with the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute. The study, published in Science Advances, revealed a possible cause for the decline in atmospheric oxygen for at least 800,000 years: the increased weathering — or processes like oxidation that break down rocks and minerals — due to glaciation.