Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to ...

(CNN) — An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample extended so ...

Frozen deep beneath Antarctica and Greenland lies something remarkable. Tiny bubbles of ancient air, locked away in ice for hundreds of thousands of years, hold secrets about our planet's past.

The Tufts University scientist works with a team, sometimes drilling hundreds of feet down into the ice, to explore changes ...

Scientists are working to shed new light on an enduring climate mystery—one that, if solved, could help them make more accurate predictions about the planet's future. In a new study, data from ice ...

Greenland's ice sheet reveals a 12,000-year mercury record, showing human contamination far predates industrial eras. Early ...

The synchronization of data from two natural climate archives -- a speleothem from the Herbstlabyrinth Cave in Hesse (Germany) and ice cores from Greenland -- offers new insights into the chronology ...

Studying ice cores can help scientists find out more about the climate in the past. A section of the ice core sample taken on Kon Chukurbashi is labeled at the summit. Swiss glaciologist Andreas Henz ...

Scientists have successfully extracted the world’s oldest ice core at Little Dome C in East Antarctica. Extracted during the fourth drilling campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project, funded by ...

Researchers and scientists from India and other countries have achieved a historic scientific milestone: extracting ice cores from Antarctica that preserve a climate record dating back up to 1.2 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists are working to shed new light on an enduring climate mystery – one that, if solved, could help them make more accurate predictions about the planet’s future. In a new study ...