Fivio Foreign – 800 BC (2020)

At the age of 8, Alis Sumiaputra was plucked from the streets of his village in Timor-Leste by an Indonesian soldier and taken to West Java. The soldier adopted the stolen child into his family, converted Alis to Islam and changed his name. Eventually, Alis took over the family farm. His Timorese family was never mentioned. Until, in 2019, a woman called Nina came looking for him. Like Alis, Nina Pinto was stolen from Timor-Leste as a child. She was abused by the soldier who took her and treated like a servant by his family.

It's a mission six years in the making. A top team of scientists from the USA and Australia are finally realising their dream: they're heading to a remote corner of the Antarctica to execute an ambitious plan. They want to drill hundreds of metres deep into the earth's frozen past in a bid to illuminate its not-so-frozen future. "We need to see how the atmosphere has handled the emissions that we have thrown at it," says CSIRO's Dr David Etheridge. The team's destination is Law Dome, a mountain of ice holding a precious, pristine climate archive stretching back over 80,000 years.

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