Last week, the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) began the pilot drill for the Million Year Ice Core Project (MYIC), a ...
A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.
Antarctic scientists have extracted what is believed to be the world's oldest ice. The international team successfully drilled a 2.8-kilometer-long ice core, reaching the bedrock beneath the ...
By analyzing0 the ice cores extracted from the deep ice in Antarctica, the project will collect information about the evolution of temperature, the composition of the atmosphere, and the carbon cycle.
The size variations in the Antarctic ice sheet over time have confirmed its unstable nature, made worse by greenhouse ...
Scientists just found evidence that Antarctica was a rainforest when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Some 90 million years ago, ...
It is official: 2024 was the hottest year since 1850, around the time scientists began keeping reliable records of Earth’s ...
Antarctica, often regarded as the planet's last true wilderness, harbors unique ecosystems that support extraordinary ...
Calving, when chunks of ice break off from ice shelves to form icebergs, is common and increasingly influenced by climate change. For extremely large icebergs, this process is typically slow, often ...
Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...
A wall of ice the size of Rhode Island is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals.