Scientists have recently received a groundbreaking ice core that could hold the secrets to understanding Earth’s past climate. The ice, which is estimated to be 1.5 million years old or possibly even ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...

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Scientists have retrieved the deepest sediment core ever from beneath Antarctic ice, spanning nearly 23 million years. This ...

Scientists on Wednesday sealed ancient chunks of glacial ice in a first-of-its-kind sanctuary in Antarctica in the hope of preserving these fast-disappearing records of Earth's past climate for ...

"Our ice is much colder and probably older than Grigoriev, which gives us hope," said Miles, back in the Tajik capital Dushanbe in October. "Only laboratory analysis will confirm this, but we hope the ...

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples from glaciers rescued worldwide are now beginning to be stored there for ...

An ice-core record of hydrogen reveals that atmospheric levels vary in response to climate change and have increased drastically owing to human activity since the pre-industrial era. The apparent ...

A researcher at Japan's Hokkaido University Institute of Low Temperature Science cuts a slice from an ice core sample taken from a glacier in the Pamir mountain range ...