A unique ice core is currently being examined in the Alfred Wegener Institute's ice laboratory: the oldest continuous ice core that has ever been drilled on Earth. As part of the EU-funded ...

Australian scientists have started analysing the first batch of samples from the "Million Year Ice Core" project.

5-Million-Year-Old Antarctic Ice Core Contains Sample Of Air From The Pliocene Epoch Previous to this discovery, the oldest ice found dated back just 800,000 years.

When ice melts (changing from solid to liquid), gases are released—just like just like when Pop Rocks dissolves in water. The gases can tell us what was in the earth’s atmosphere when the ice was ...

A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.

Scientists say they have tapped into an extraordinary archive of the Earth’s climate in the ice deep beneath Antarctica. They hope it will help them understand both how the climate changed in ...

This week, uncover some of the oldest ice on Earth, follow a dinosaur highway, learn how Pluto sealed the capture of its moon Charon with a “kiss,” and more.

Air bubbles within a deep ice core drilled in Antarctica could reveal why Earth suddenly began to experience longer ice ages nearly 1 million years ago.

The core, nearly as long as 25 soccer fields end to end or six and a half times taller than the Empire State Building to the very tip of its antenna, is a “time machine” that captures “an ...