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

“We have a strong indication that the uppermost 2,480 meters contain a climate record that goes back to 1.2 million years in ...

Scientists Baffled After Recovering 1.7-Mile-Long Ice Samples Dating Back 1.2 Million Years, Call It a ‘Time Machine’ ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

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

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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.

An international team of scientists have drilled nearly two miles down into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting an ice core sample that's estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old, they ...

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.

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 ...

Ice cores and other geological samples are a crucial piece of how scientists understand our planet’s history and how the climate is changing. They can trap bubbles of air and particles that show ...

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 ...