This week, these cylinder ice samples arrived in the UK for climate analysis, more than a million years after they captured some of the Earth's atmosphere at the time. Dr Liz Thomas leads the Ice ...

As climate change continues to be a pressing global issue, scientists are racing against time to analyze Earth’s oldest ice cores. These ancient frozen archives hold invaluable data that could unlock ...

An ice core sample from the European Alps has been the first to be dated to the last Ice Age, providing vital historical environmental data stretching back across the last 12,000 years. The discovery ...

Two Central Washington University graduate students joined Geological Sciences Professor Dr. Susan Kaspari in Norway last ...

A long-debated platinum spike in Greenland ice is best explained by volcanic activity rather than a cosmic impact, reshaping ideas about what triggered the Younger Dryas cooling. An unusual platinum ...

The analysis in Hokkaido will uncover only some of what the ice has to share, and with the other samples preserved in Antarctica, there will be opportunities for more research. For example, he said, ...

In an exciting development for climate science, researchers have extracted an Arctic ice core containing an astonishing 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history. The discovery, reported by the ...

A new study from Chloe Brashear, Tyler Jones and others suggests abrupt warming events were preceded by periods of unusually stable temperatures during the last ice age. The researchers point toward ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Much like the ice he helped preserve for decades, Chester “Chet” Langway’s legacy at the University at Buffalo endures. Faculty here are still studying the ancient sediments that ...