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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of international scientists has drilled deep ice cores in glaciers in Tajikistan to collect centuries of climate data ...

A University of Minnesota researcher is back home after a months-long journey to the end of the earth, collecting ice samples that are likely millions of years old. "Not a day goes by where I don't ...

Glaciers can reveal vast archives of information about Earth's environmental past, but deciphering the origins of the matter within them can be a challenge. Now, using a novel technique that enables ...

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 ...

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Earth is quietly collecting radioactive debris from an ancient stellar explosion as our Solar System drifts through a giant ...

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 ...