A minus-40-degree vault concealed in a federal government warehouse west of Denver holds the climate science equivalent of gold: the United States’ growing collection of ice from around a warming ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice ...

A team of international scientists has drilled deep ice cores in glaciers in Tajikistan to collect centuries of climate data trapped in the ice. The ice, drilled from 105 metres below the surface, can ...

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.

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Ohio State’s Undergraduate Student Government adopted a resolution Wednesday urging the university to fund the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center’s Ice Core Facility renovation. The Byrd Center ...

Scientists collect core samples from the polar ice sheets to learn about our planet’s climatic past. This core, extracted in Greenland in 2019, contains the Vedde ash layer, likely remnants of an ...

Scientists have drilled 1.7 miles deep into Antarctica, pulling up an ice core sample that dates back at least 1.2 million years. They expect the sample to offer new insights into the evolution 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 ...

The five tents sitting on the white expanse of the Clark Glacier look more like a winter camping site than a scientific field camp. Skis stick out of the snow. A pot on the propane stove holds melted ...