Air bubbles within a deep ice core drilled in Antarctica could reveal why Earth suddenly began to experience longer ice ages ...

Scientists Baffled After Recovering 1.7-Mile-Long Ice Samples Dating Back 1.2 Million Years, Call It a ‘Time Machine’ ...

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

Ice cores can show how temperatures have fluctuated ... The deeper the cores go, the more history they contain — and the icy layers could also solve some of the biggest questions about mysteriou ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

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

However, that sample was collected closer to the surface, thanks to natural processes that push up layers of older blue ice. The new ice core represents the longest continuous record of Earth’s ...

This volcanic cloud layer reflected the sunlight ... By analyzing traces of ash preserved in ice cores recovered from Greenland, the authors of a new study produced a chemical fingerprint of ...

The team had to work to prevent drill failures and ensure that the electromechanical core drill was progressing through the ice layers. Each meter of ice can contain as many as 13,000 years of ...