A team led by Prof. Zheng Tianlu and Prof. Wei Jiang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), has developed a novel technique known as All-Optical Atom Trap Trace Analysis.

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

Antarctic research has received a new boost thanks to a novel new technique providing new insights into how the paleoclimate ...

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 ...

Social media posts are claiming to disprove the effects of climate change in Antarctica by comparing the amount of sea ice ...

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.

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

The sea ice in Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound has held secrets beneath its surface for decades. Now, scientists have unlocked ...

a new race is under way in Antarctica, this time motivated by the need to understand one of the gravest threats facing humanity. While other ancient climate records exist, only the ancient ice ...

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

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

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