Brussels, 28/07/2004 (Agence Europe) - As part of the PROMESS1 (PROfiles across MEditerranean Sedimentary Systems) research project, with a budget of 3.6 million EUR, including 2.7 million from the EU, European scientists have collected 500,000 year-old sediment cores from the Mediterranean Sea bed. These samples will enable scientists to piece together climate changes since prehistoric times, and thus provide the key to understanding current climatic phenomena. Ocean drilling is crucial in...