Representing the longest continuous record of the Earth’s climate, the giant ice core may soon unlock some much-wanted data ...

As climate change continues to be a pressing global issue, scientists are racing against time to analyze Earth’s oldest ice cores. These ancient frozen archives hold invaluable data that could unlock ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Much like the ice he helped preserve for decades, Chester “Chet” Langway’s legacy at the University at Buffalo endures. Faculty here are still studying the ancient sediments that ...

Our solar system is currently passing through the Local Interstellar Cloud, a region of highly diluted gas and dust between ...

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 ...

Scientists drilling in East Antarctica retrieved 1.2 million-year-old ice, containing ancient air bubbles that reveal Earth's ...

Stanislav Kutuzov felt the drillhead he was controlling smash into the rock more than 100 meters below him high on a glacier in the Pamir peaks of Tajikistan. The ice core samples it took could help ...

After years as a professional research assistant at INSTAAR’s stable isotope lab, Valerie Morris estimates she’s processed more than 10 kilometers of ice from around the world. “You’ve done more ice ...

As climate change continues to alter the planet, one of the earliest casualties will be glaciers spread across the world. However, the Pamir mountains in Central Asia have long resisted the trend of ...

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 ...