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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 ...

Ice cores extracted from polar and high-altitude glaciers constitute layered archives of past environmental conditions. Seasonal snowfall traps dust, aerosols, biological particles and air bubbles, ...

The recent analysis of a 10,000-year-old ice core from Greenland has unveiled fascinating insights into Earth’s climate history, providing keys that may unlock the mystery of what lies ahead for our ...

A sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 showed the giant northern island 2.7 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius) hotter than its 20th-century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years, ...

Scientists have successfully extracted the world’s oldest ice core at Little Dome C in East Antarctica. Extracted during the fourth drilling campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project, funded by ...

These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed light on how human-generated emissions will shape our planet’s future. Reading ...

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 ...

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 ...

A boat navigates at night next to large icebergs near the town of Kulusuk, in eastern Greenland on Aug. 15, 2019. A sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 showed the giant northern island ...