![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090116014958im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Missing Radioactivity in Ice Cores Bodes Ill For Part of Asia
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November 18, 2008
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When Ohio State glaciologists failed to find the expected radioactive signals in the latest core they drilled from a Himalayan ice field, they knew it meant trouble for their research. But those missing markers of radiation, remnants from atomic bomb tests a half-century ago, foretell a much greater threat to the half-billion or more people living downstream of that vast mountain range.
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