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

Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more than 200 days, drilling into the ice and processing the ice core at a remote ...

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Ice cores are climate scientists’ best way of understand Earth’s climate in the recent geologic past, largely because of the air bubbles trapped within them. An international team of ...

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters ...

An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles (2.8 kilometers) to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice ...

A historic ice core recently drilled from deep beneath the Antarctic surface by the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project. Credit: Scoto © / PNRA / IPEV At an extremely ...

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Researchers say a collected sample is the longest continuous record of Earth’s past climate from an ice core Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Scientists have drilled 1.7 miles deep into Antarctica ...

Working at temperatures of -35C, a team of scientists extracted a 2.8km-long cyclinder, or core, of ice - longer than eight Eiffel Towers end-to-end. Suspended inside the ice are ancient air ...

An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample extended so deep that ...