Palaeoclimatic data refers to information about past climates on Earth, providing insights into how climate has changed over thousands to millions of years. Understanding past climate is essential because it helps scientists identify natural climate variability, understand long-term trends, and predict future climate patterns. Since direct measurements of climate parameters such as temperature, precipitation, and atmospheric composition only exist for the last century or so, researchers rely on indirect evidence, or proxies, preserved in natural archives to reconstruct past climates. These sources of palaeoclimatic data are diverse and can be broadly categorized into several major types, each offering unique information about different aspects of the Earth’s past climate. One of the most important sources of palaeoclimatic data is ice cores. Ice cores are cylindrical samples drilled from glaciers and ice sheets, particularly in Antarctica and Greenland. These cores contain layers of ice that have accumulated over hundreds of thousands of years, with each layer representing a year or a season of snowfall. The composition of gases trapped in the ice, such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, provides a direct record of past atmospheric composition. Additionally, the isotopic ratios of oxygen (O-16 and O-18) and hydrogen in the ice can be analyzed to infer past temperatures. Ice cores also capture evidence of volcanic eruptions, dust, and other aerosols, which help reconstruct past climate events and the frequency of