Researchers led by Yuko Motizuki from the Astro-Glaciology Laboratory at the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan have developed a new laser-based sampling system for studying the composition of ice cores ...

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 ...

Sept 13 – Scientists are racing to collect ice cores – along with long-frozen records they hold of climate cycles – as global warming melts glaciers and ice sheets. Some say they are running out of ...

Have you heard about scientists who drill ice cores? Ice cores are samples taken from glaciers using special machines that go deep down into the glacier and take out solid tubes of ice and bring them ...

A mile-long ice sample extracted by the U.S. military while it was studying whether to arm Greenland with nuclear missiles is filled with perfectly preserved insects and plants from hundreds of ...

The team had to bring the core samples—dozens of cylinders of ice about 50 centimeters (20 inches) long—to the surface carefully. They then numbered and packed the samples so they could be carried ...

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

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Researchers led by Yuko Motizuki from the Astro-Glaciology Laboratory at the RIKEN Nishina Center, in Japan, have developed a new laser-based sampling system for studying the composition of ice cores ...