An international research team has recovered the longest sediment core ever drilled from beneath an ice sheet. The core ...

As climate change continues to be a pressing global issue, scientists are racing against time to analyze Earth’s oldest ice cores. These ancient frozen archives hold invaluable data that could unlock ...

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Deep beneath Antarctica’s ice, scientists have uncovered a geological archive that could reshape predictions of future sea-level rise.

After years as a professional research assistant at INSTAAR’s stable isotope lab, Valerie Morris estimates she’s processed more than 10 kilometers of ice from around the world. “You’ve done more ice ...

Frozen deep beneath Antarctica and Greenland lies something remarkable. Tiny bubbles of ancient air, locked away in ice for hundreds of thousands of years, hold secrets about our planet's past.

As the planet continues to warm, the world is losing 273 billion tonnes of glacial ice every year, and scientists are scrambling to preserve the climate data locked within these glaciers. On Wednesday ...

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of East Antarctica. The 6-million-year-old ice and the tiny air bubbles trapped ...

Imagine turning 25 million satellite photos into real-time ice maps—no magic wand required. Google’s AlphaEarth Foundations does this every day. It’s like Sherlock Holmes with a telescope, solving ...

The 748-foot-long sediment core contains a record of roughly the past 23 million years, including periods when the planet's surface temperature was hotter than it is today ...