An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

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ice core from the Antarctic ice sheet. The sample extended so deep that scientists reached the bedrock beneath it. The ice core spans at least 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history.

Scientists in the Antarctic have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice—drilling down 1.7 miles for ice samples a ...

A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, stretching back more than a million years.

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The 2,800-meter ice core samples will be transported to Europe using specialized cold containers to maintain each core segment’s temperature. Once the core pieces reach their destinations, scientists ...

The extracted ice core harbors data such as historical atmospheric temperatures, as well as incredibly preserved samples of air – and the greenhouse gases within it – spanning thousands of years.