An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic did not melt during the last interglacial event, suggesting it could ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...

Left: Antarctic ice core and the bubbles contained in it. Right: Vacuum-ultraviolet light source and metastable krypton atom beam device. A team led by Prof. Zheng-Tian Lu and Prof. Wei Jiang from the ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — New analyses of ancient ice from Antarctica and the air contained inside it are extending the history of Earth’s climate records and expanding researchers’ understanding of how the ...

After years as a professional research assistant at INSTAAR’s stable isotope lab, Valerie Morris estimates she’s processed more than 10 kilometers of ice from around the world. “You’ve done more ice ...

Glaciers can reveal vast archives of information about Earth's environmental past, but deciphering the origins of the matter within them can be a challenge. Now, using a novel technique that enables ...

The ice sample, retrieved in Antarctica, is the oldest on record—but this discovery may just be tip of the iceberg. Reading time 3 minutes Science likes to travel far in search of new phenomena, but ...

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A researcher at Japan’s Hokkaido University Institute of Low Temperature Science cuts a slice from an ice core sample taken from a glacier in the Pamir mountain ...