Ice cores are some of our best natural 'archives' of Earth's long-term climate. They don't necessarily contain a complete, ...

Researchers across the Alps are extracting ice cores from rapidly shrinking glaciers in a bid to preserve climate records ...

Ice core records stretching back hundreds of thousands of years show that airborne mineral dust, not carbon dioxide alone, ...

While hydrogen itself doesn’t trap greenhouse gases, its interaction with other gases can indirectly heat the atmosphere 11 ...

A research team coordinated by the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (Cnr-Isp) and Ca' Foscari University of Venice has successfully extracted deep ice cores from ...

Glaciers hold layers of history preserved in ice, offering unique insights into Earth's past that can also help us interpret the future. Trapped amidst the frozen water are microscopic deposits of ...

The Dartmouth-led study analyzed ice core data from Greenland and a 700-foot core members of the research team extracted from Denali National Park and Preserve in 2013. The Denali ice core contains a ...

An ice-core record of hydrogen reveals that atmospheric levels vary in response to climate change and have increased drastically owing to human activity since the pre-industrial era. The apparent ...

Arctic poppy (Papaver radicatum) flowering on rock, Disko-Bay, West-Greenland, Greenland. The heart of Greenland has recently been green. A two-mile-deep ice core from the very center of Greenland’s ...

An international team of scientists has returned from the heart of West Antarctica with 228 metres of ancient rock and mud, the longest core ever retrieved from below an ice sheet. Preliminary dating, ...