Innovations Report: In order to predict the evolution of greenhouse gases, it is essential to retrace their past evolution as far back in time as possible. By analyzing ice cores extracted from Antartica through the EPICA (1) ice coring project, French researchers from LGGE-OSUG (2) and LSCE-IPSL (3),supported by international partners (4), have managed to push back the “age” of previous records. For the first time, they have reconstituted tthe evolution, over 800,000 years, of levels of carbon …