An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample extended so deep that ...

An expedition earlier this year to the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan retrieved two ice cores from a glacier that seems to be ...

Million year old ice cores were just one-upped by an even older core found in Antarctica. The core’s age and the air bubbles it contains reveal a lot about the Earth’s climate history and possibly ...

Humans have been recording the weather for thousands of years. Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 ...

A viral video has captured the unnerving moment a chunk of ice made bizarre sounds after being dropped down a 450ft-deep borehole. In the footage posted on Twitter, the ice core makes an unnerving ...

The Antarctic Division in Hobart never runs out of ice for their cocktails. For 30 years they've been collecting Antarctic ice cores and they currently have over 5 kilometres of ice in cold storage.

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A block of ancient Antarctic ice, holding bubbles of air trapped 700 years ago, will go on display for the first time as part of a new exhibition to help the public understand climate change. By ...

The Antarctic core provides a comparison with records from Greenland Scientists have found a 200-year lag time between past climate events at the poles. The most detailed Antarctic ice core provides ...

Tiny bubbles of ancient air are locked in the ice Global climate patterns stretching back 740,000 years have been confirmed by a three-kilometre-long ice core drilled from the Antarctic, Nature ...

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