Drilling through nearly two miles of Antarctic ice is not something you do casually. It takes years of preparation, ...

The team had to bring the core samples—dozens of cylinders of ice about 50 centimeters (20 inches) long—to the surface carefully. They then numbered and packed the samples so they could be carried ...

Frozen deep beneath Antarctica and Greenland lies something remarkable. Tiny bubbles of ancient air, locked away in ice for hundreds of thousands of years, hold secrets about our planet's past.

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples from glaciers rescued worldwide are now beginning to be stored there for ...

Ice cores serve as time‐resolved archives of past atmospheric composition, preserving chemical species deposited through snow accumulation and atmospheric transport. Analyses of ions, trace elements ...

Scientists collect core samples from the polar ice sheets to learn about our planet’s climatic past. This core, extracted in Greenland in 2019, contains the Vedde ash layer, likely remnants of an ...

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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 ...

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples from glaciers rescued worldwide are now beginning to be stored there for ...