An international research team has extracted the oldest continuous ice core ever recovered from Antarctica, a cylinder of ...

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...

In an exciting development for climate science, researchers have extracted an Arctic ice core containing an astonishing 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history. The discovery, reported by the ...

Frozen deep beneath Antarctica and Greenland lies something remarkable. Tiny bubbles of ancient air, locked away in ice for hundreds of thousands of years, hold secrets about our planet's past.

A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every ...

An ice core sample from the European Alps has been the first to be dated to the last Ice Age, providing vital historical environmental data stretching back across the last 12,000 years. The discovery ...

Analyses will help to reveal how far the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated in the past — and what it might do in the future.

An international team featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has drilled the longest ever sediment core from under an ice sheet, providing a record stretching back ...

Researchers and scientists from India and other countries have achieved a historic scientific milestone: extracting ice cores from Antarctica that preserve a climate record dating back up to 1.2 ...

On the evening of Christmas 1776, Gen. George Washington surprised the King's forces by leading the Continental Army in a ...