An expedition earlier this year to the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan retrieved two ice cores from a glacier that seems to be ...

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 deep that ...

Ice ages have come and gone, shaping the planet and leaving scientists and historians alike wondering about their causes and ...

Humans have been recording the weather for thousands of years. Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 ...

Analysis of core samples extracted from beneath an ice sheet indicates that the region is extremely responsive to the temperatures characteristic of today’s interglacial period. Researchers involved ...

Core samples pulled from beneath ice sheet suggests region is highly sensitive to the temperatures of our current ...

(AP) - An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles (2.8 kilometers) to Antarctic bedrock to reach ...

The team studied a series of climate forcings to determine the primary factor that is making Antarctica's ice sheets ...

Secrets of the Earth’s past climate locked in a three-kilometre long Antarctic ice core are revealed this week in the journal Nature. The core from Dome C, high on East Antarctica’s plateau, contains ...

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