An international team of researchers announced that they have successfully drilled a 2.8-kilometer-long ice core from ...

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

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

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

Scientists drilled a 2-mile-deep ice core in Antarctica, allowing them to peer back in time at Earth's climate over 1.2 ...

Analysis of the ancient ice is expected to show how Earth's atmosphere and climate have evolved. Scientists say it should ...

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

but I am sure they heaved over 20,000 shovels of snow and lifted over two tons per person while moving the science equipment, food and gear around. Ludo shoveled the most, digging the snowpits, and ...

Ice cores from Antarctica act like time capsules. Tiny air bubbles that were formed thousands of years ago are locked inside the ancient ice. These bubbles contain atmospheric gases from the past that ...