The newest arrivals at a subzero lab in Cambridge are not just some blocks of ice — they are time machines. This month, ...

East Antarctica’s tectonic plate probably broke off of the supercontinent about 80 million years ago, with today’s ice sheet forming 34 million years ago. Today, the researchers write, the flat ...

The COLDEX project is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation. It uses radar to find locations to collect ice that will ultimately give a 1.5- million-year-old record of the Earth's climate.

These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed ...

A 12,000-year-old Alpine ice core reveals Europe once endured massive dust storms and sea salt surges—evidence of a radically ...

Trees, rocks, and ice are united by a quintessential job: Each catalog climate history. Lonnie Thompson, a paleoclimatologist who’s studied ice core records since the late 1970s puts it this way ...

New tool for reconstructing ancient sea ice to study climate change Date: January 4, 2021 Source: Brown University Summary: A previously problematic molecule turns out to be a reliable proxy for ...

The Center for Oldest Ice Exploration will send 22 scientists to Antarctica in search of a continuous, 1.5-million-year-old ice sample. If successful, they could get a peek into the planet’s ...

U.S. Geological Survey scientist Joan Fitzpatrick is looking at samples from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to research how these masses of frozen water respond to changing climate.

Part of every ice core is archived in another, larger room at about minus 33 degrees, so future researchers can verify old results or try new tests. The archive contains nearly 56,000 feet of ice.

Princeton: a half-century at the environmental forefront“Over the last 60-plus years, ice cores have produced the best evidence we have that carbon dioxide is linked to the Earth’s climate” said John ...

Opening in the fall of 2001, Ancient Ice, Cool Science: Climate Change in the North examined contemporary research on climate change in the Arctic. Using case studies drawn from current research, the ...