Scientists reached Antarctic bedrock after drilling 1.7 miles through more than a million years of ice deposits on the white continent. “The objectives of this campaign present unprecedented ...

A new study of Antarctic ice cores published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has extended our record of Earth's climate conditions back 6 million years, Oregon State University ...

Researcher Peter Neff and his team are studying glaciers in Antarctica and British Columbia to gain insights about Earth’s ...

In 2015, a group of scientists braved the stinging katabatic winds of East Antarctica and ventured on a first-of-its-kind mission to save the planet, with a snowplow. With tractor wheels rolling and ...

Glaciers can reveal vast archives of information about Earth's environmental past, but deciphering the origins of the matter ...

ROME (AP) — Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth’s atmosphere in a frozen vault for future ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Raising the Foro Drill, Allan Hills, Antarctica. 2022-2023. (CREDIT: Julia Marks Peterson, COLDEX) At the edge of East Antarctica, ...

Glaciers can reveal vast archives of information about Earth's environmental past, but deciphering the origins of the matter ...

In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named “Ran” to traverse ...

Antarctic ice cores hint that changes in the ocean might have played a larger part than have greenhouse gases in key climate shifts of the past three million years. At Allan Hills in Antarctica, the ...

This undated image released on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026 by the Ice Memory Foundation, shows the Concordia Station, where the Ice Memory Sanctuary is being built in Antarctica for ice cores from the ...