Ice cores are a pretty good way to get an idea ... Until fairly recently, the oldest ice recovered from the thickest part of Antarctic ice sheets was around 800,000 years old.

To validate their method, the USTC team joined forces with glaciologists Professor Michael Bender and Dr. Sarah Shackleton from Princeton University. Together, they analyzed two 1-kilogram ice samples ...

Antarctica is the world's great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth's climate system is largely powered by the annual ...

Considered the pioneer of ice core drilling, the late UB professor emeritus' work extracting climate data from ice sheets ...

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has achieved a historic milestone this week, by successfully drilling a 2800-metre-long ice core, consisting of ice from the ...

Also known by its scientific - and less exciting - name, Thwaites Glacier, the glacier floats at the northern edge of the ...

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are on course for rapid retreat, even collapse, leading to multiple feet of sea level ...

A camera dropped 305 feet through a hole in the ice in Antarctica has revealed remarkable insights into the continent’s ...

The findings were published in the Nature Communications. Deep ice cores drilled from the Antarctic continent and the Greenland ice sheet—often extending a couple of kilometers in depth—serve ...

"The melting of ice cores is a big issue." Scientists make chilling discovery hidden deep within centuries-old ice cores: 'We ...

Left: Antarctic ice core and the bubbles contained in it. Right: Vacuum-ultraviolet light source and metastable krypton atom beam device. A team led by Prof. Zheng-Tian Lu and Prof. Wei Jiang from ...

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt ...