An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...
The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...
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The climate has changed in the past, long before humans, so how do scientists know our recent warming is caused by man?
By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...
A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.
Scientists in the Antarctic have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice—drilling down 1.7 miles for ice samples a ...
Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson ...
The geochemical data could be synchronized with a heretofore unattributed sulfate peak in Greenland ice cores. The statistical ... eruption and the abrupt change in climate," explains the ...
These abrupt climate change events, known as Dansgaard-Oeschger ... from the two-mile long Western Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core and a replicate core collected with a specialized drill ...
These abrupt climate change events, known as Dansgaard-Oeschger ... from the two-mile long Western Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core and a replicate core collected with a specialized drill ...
Ice cores have been collected by the British Antarctic Survey and include samples dating back 800,000 years. Professor Iain Stewart visits the cold store in Cambridge where scientists use these ...