Drilling for Scotch whiskey on frozen continent (AP)

This NASA Aqua satellite image shows clouds of phytoplankton thrivng in cold, nutrient-rich waters off Greenland in 2003. Global warming has been blamed for the alarming loss of ice shelves in Antarctica, but a new study says newly-exposed areas of sea are now soaking up some of the carbon gas that causes the problem.(AFP/NASA/File)AP - A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago.