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 ...

In an exciting development for climate science, researchers have extracted an Arctic ice core containing an astonishing 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history. The discovery, reported by the ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

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 ...

At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, scientists uncovered something so old it makes even time feel young. Beneath that ...

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 ...

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters) deep ...

After 10 days with only the open ocean and the occasional iceberg at our sides, sailing into the sea ice felt like crossing ...

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