An ice core sample from the European Alps has been the first to be dated to the last Ice Age, providing vital historical environmental data stretching back across the last 12,000 years. The discovery ...
In the summer of 2025, an international research team processes over 2,800 metres of ice in the Alfred Wegener Institute's ice laboratory. It comes from the oldest continuous ice core ever drilled on ...
Glaciers hold layers of history preserved in ice, offering unique insights into Earth's past that can also help us interpret the future. Trapped amidst the frozen water are microscopic deposits of ...
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 ...
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At the National Ice Core Facility in Lakewood, Colorado, ice is sliced up with band saws. (Amanda Pampuro/Courthouse News) Silver band saws inside Colorado's National Ice Core Facility.