"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

The European team spent four years drilling at the remote Little Dome C site, located on the Antarctic plateau in the eastern part of the continent at an altitude of nearly 3,200 meters. According to ...

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

Antarctic scientists have extracted what is believed to be the world's oldest ice. The international team successfully ...

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

An international team of scientists announced that they drilled a 2.8-kilometer (2-mile) ice core, reaching the bedrock ...

A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, stretching ...

Researchers are studying ancient Antarctic ice to learn more about the past in hopes of understanding the climate of Earth’s ...

An ancient fossilized forest in Montana is reemerging 600 feet higher than the present-day tree line after spending the last ...

The National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility, which opened in 1993 in Lakewood, Colorado, houses thousands of meters of ...

Scientists say they have tapped into an extraordinary archive of the Earth’s climate in the ice deep beneath Antarctica. They hope it will help them understand both how the climate changed in the past ...