An ice core sample from the European Alps has been the first to be dated to the last Ice Age, providing vital historical ...

The newest arrivals at a subzero lab in Cambridge are not just some blocks of ice — they are time machines. This month, ...

The planet’s oldest ice was drilled from within the Antarctic ice sheet, and could provide new insights into the evolution of ...

The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...

A 12,000-year-old Alpine ice core reveals Europe once endured massive dust storms and sea salt surges—evidence of a radically ...

A rapidly melting glacier on Wilczek Island in Russia has uncovered a rare whale graveyard, revealing insights into sea-level ...

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 ice was extracted from the deep ocean in East Antarctica earlier this year and is thought to be around 1.2 million years ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers ...

The COLDEX project is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation. It uses radar to find locations to collect ice that will ultimately give a 1.5- million-year-old record of the Earth's climate.

Trees, rocks, and ice are united by a quintessential job: Each catalog climate history. Lonnie Thompson, a paleoclimatologist who’s studied ice core records since the late 1970s puts it this way ...

New tool for reconstructing ancient sea ice to study climate change Date: January 4, 2021 Source: Brown University Summary: A previously problematic molecule turns out to be a reliable proxy for ...