Scientists reached Antarctic bedrock after drilling 1.7 miles through more than a million years of ice deposits on the white continent, they announced Jan. 9.
A new study of Antarctic ice cores published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has extended our record of Earth's climate conditions back 6 million years, Oregon State University ...
From orbit, much of Greenland appears seamless. A white expanse, unbroken, stretching across the map like a frozen shield.
Scientists have recovered a deep ice core from a remote part of East Antarctica as they search for answers to one of the most ...
Scientists probing for Earth's oldest continuous ice core near the South Pole Basin have uncovered disturbed basal layers and ...
Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, England, are studying ice cores that may be older than 1.5 million years in hopes that they can reveal clues about our changing climate and ...
Prudhoe Ice Dome disappeared during a warm period 7000 years ago. Global warming could cause similar temperatures by 2100, ...
A researcher at Japan's Hokkaido University Institute of Low Temperature Science cuts a slice from an ice core sample taken from a glacier in the Pamir mountain range ...