By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

Scientists in the Antarctic have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice—drilling down 1.7 miles for ice samples a ...

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

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Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more than 200 days, drilling into the ice and processing the ice core at a remote ...

This week, uncover some of the oldest ice on Earth, follow a dinosaur highway, learn how Pluto sealed the capture of its moon Charon with a “kiss,” and more.

Ice cores are climate scientists’ best way of understand Earth’s climate in the recent geologic past, largely because of the air bubbles trapped within them. An international team of ...

A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.

Last week, the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) began the pilot drill for the Million Year Ice Core Project (MYIC), a ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — Investigations into precipitation patterns in eastern Central Europe since the end of the last ice age have shown that dynamic processes in atmospheric circulation, such as the ...