This discovery can help improve forecasts, risk maps, and response plans.

Representing the longest continuous record of the Earth’s climate, the giant ice core may soon unlock some much-wanted data into Earth's climate history.

Humans have been recording the weather for thousands of years. Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like the inverse of the mythical butterfly flapping its wings in China, an ice core extracted from Greenland can reveal the rise ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has precisely dated an eruption from Newberry Volcano and discovered that its ...

(CNN) — An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample extended so ...

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.

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

A decade ago, Bradley Markle, an assistant professor at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of ...

Secrets of the Earth’s past climate locked in a three-kilometre long Antarctic ice core are revealed this week in the journal Nature. The core from Dome C, high on East Antarctica’s plateau, contains ...

Tidewater glaciers are very large rivers of ice that flow into the sea. These glaciers sizzle and hiss as the slow-moving ice thaws in the seawater, sounding like food sizzling in a frying pan. These ...