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 ...

Drilling has begun in Australia's quest for the oldest, continuous ice core record of Earth's climate, dating back more than ...

Australian scientists have started drilling in Antarctica for million-year-old ice as they try to shed light on the Earth's ...

What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica.

This group successfully drilled through Antarctic ice to reach ... This breakthrough sets a new record in ice core studies, surpassing the 800,000-year record previously achieved by the EPICA project ...

Ice, which is likely the oldest ever discovered, has been extracted from deep within Antarctica.As per BBC, this ice is ...

It had to transport the drilling equipment, laboratories and ... says Dr Robert Mulvaney, an ice core scientist at British Antarctic Survey. The core was slowly pulled from the ice sheet using ...

The European scientists worked over four Antarctic summers ... for weeks in -35C temperatures to drill the ice It had to transport the drilling equipment, laboratories and camp 40km by snow ...