Climate patterns in the tropics help determine how much snow falls from year to year in Antarctica, one of the coldest, ...

Ice cores recovered from an ice cap in northwestern Tibet appear to preserve fragments of ancient ice from the last ice age, ...

An ice core drilled by a research team is displayed at Little Dome C field base in eastern Antarctica, during the cutting phase on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (PNRA/IPEV Beyond Epica via AP) (ASSOCIATED ...

Ice core records from Antarctica document continuous variations in atmospheric greenhouse gases over the past 800,000 years, delineating the glacial–interglacial cycles that characterize the late ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — New analyses of ancient ice from Antarctica and the air contained inside it are extending the history of Earth’s climate records and expanding researchers’ understanding of how the ...

(CNN) — An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample extended so ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like the inverse of the mythical butterfly flapping its wings in China, an ice core extracted from Greenland can reveal the 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 ...