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 ...

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.

Antarctica is far more than just a bucket-list destination for travelers and a home for penguins. It's a veritable time machine, holding evidence from millions of years of Earth's climatic history ...

A team of international scientists has drilled deep ice cores in glaciers in Tajikistan to collect centuries of climate data trapped in the ice. The ice, drilled from 105 metres below the surface, can ...

Scientists collect core samples from the polar ice sheets to learn about our planet’s climatic past. This core, extracted in Greenland in 2019, contains the Vedde ash layer, likely remnants of an ...

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 ...

Antarctica's ice cores are like frozen diaries of Earth's past, preserving ancient air and climate clues. Most continuous records go back about 800,000 years. But in a region called the Allan Hills, a ...

The ice sample, retrieved in Antarctica, is the oldest on record—but this discovery may just be tip of the iceberg. Reading time 3 minutes Science likes to travel far in search of new phenomena, but ...

One of Earth’s most dangerous glaciers has claimed a victim: a suite of instruments that became trapped deep within the ice.

Ice cores from Antarctica reveal "snapshots" from 6 million years of Earth's climatic history. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.