Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: You are looking at some of the oldest ice ever recovered from Antarctica. :: Cambridge, England This week, these cylinder ...

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.

Scientists have retrieved the deepest sediment core ever from beneath Antarctic ice, spanning nearly 23 million years. This ...

Researchers and scientists from India and other countries have achieved a historic scientific milestone: extracting ice cores from Antarctica that preserve a climate record dating back up to 1.2 ...

Studying ice cores can help scientists find out more about the climate in the past. A section of the ice core sample taken on Kon Chukurbashi is labeled at the summit. Swiss glaciologist Andreas Henz ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists are working to shed new light on an enduring climate mystery – one that, if solved, could help them make more accurate predictions about the planet’s future. In a new study ...

Much like the ice he helped preserve for decades, Chester “Chet” Langway’s legacy at UB endures. Faculty members here are still studying the ancient sediments that Langway’s team pulled from nearly a ...

Learn how sediment records from Texas and Florida revealed volcanic eruptions that may have triggered the Younger Dryas Ice ...