Paleo Slide Set: Polar Ice Cores
International team of scientists involved with Vostok

Science demands cooperation. By working together, these French, Russian, and American 
scientists were able to accomplish their goal: the long segments of ice they so proudly 
hold symbolize this sense of cooperation. Just as researching the Earth's climatic history 
requires collaboration between different individuals and different nations, preparing 
scientific, political, and social solutions for Earth's climatic future demands a level of 
cooperation far beyond that currently existing. While different nations and different peoples 
draw lines of separation and division on the globe, we all must realize that we share one, 
single planet, and that its destiny, good or bad, is the destiny of us all. 

Photo Credits:
Todd Sowers 
LDEO, Columbia University, Palisades, New York.