“We have a strong indication that the uppermost 2,480 meters contain a climate record that goes back to 1.2 million years in a high-resolution record where up to 13,000 years are compressed into one ...

Scientists have now retrieved the longest such documentation — an ice core nearly 2 miles long that captures about 1.2 million years of climate information. This record can help us better understand ...

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.

For the first time, an international team of researchers has shown that countless tiny ice quakes take place in one of ...

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

The great ice streams of the Antarctic and Greenland are like frozen rivers, carrying ice from the massive inland ice sheets ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. built a military base under the ice in Greenland, hidden from the Soviets. It was eventually abandoned, but its most lasting legacy is a pivotal role in climate science.

a continuous record of Earth’s climate and atmospheric past stretching back 1.2 million years, and potentially beyond. The extracted ice core harbors data such as historical atmospheric ...