The great ice streams of the Antarctic and Greenland are like frozen rivers, carrying ice from the massive inland ice sheets ...

An international team of researchers has shown that countless tiny ice quakes take place in one of Greenland's mightiest ice streams. This finding will allow the flowing of the ice sheet and ...

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

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 ...

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.

In Greenland, an international team of researchers led by ETH Zurich has discovered that countless tiny ice quakes take place deep inside ...

The deeper the cores go, the more history they contain — and the icy layers could also solve some of the biggest questions about mysterious eras in Earth’s 4.5 billion-year history. A research team ...

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 ...

Drilling vertically into ice and extracting a core is akin to measuring how old a tree is by counting ... Bubbles of different concentrations and multiple kinds of gas at different layers can be ...