An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...
By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...
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The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...
Scientists in the Antarctic have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice—drilling down 1.7 miles for ice samples a ...
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Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more than 200 days, drilling into the ice and processing the ice core at a remote ...
An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles (2.8 kilometers) to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice they ...
A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.
Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ... Speleothem and Ice Cores: Natural Climate Archives Offer New Insights Into the Climate History of Central Europe Jan. 16 ...