Representing the longest continuous record of the Earth’s climate, the giant ice core may soon unlock some much-wanted data ...

If you could look back in time, what would you search out? Would you head back to Ancient Egypt, visit the dinosaurs, step into Medieval times, or even the Stone Age? Think of all the unsolved ...

Deep beneath glaciers and polar ice caps lies Earth’s climate history—preserved in frozen layers over hundreds of thousands of years. Ice cores act as time capsules, helping scientists study past ...

Glaciers can reveal vast archives of information about Earth's environmental past, but deciphering the origins of the matter within them can be a challenge. Now, using a novel technique that enables ...

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 ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...

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 ...

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An ice-core record of hydrogen reveals that atmospheric levels vary in response to climate change and have increased drastically owing to human activity since the pre-industrial era. The apparent ...

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 ...