The important role ships play in gathering scientific data in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean has been outlined at a ...

Drilling through nearly two miles of Antarctic ice is not something you do casually. It takes years of preparation, specialized equipment, and a tolerance for temperatures that would stop most field ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ice cores extracted by scientists from glaciers or polar ice caps contain air bubbles that have been trapped for millennia. Analysing them provides information about the composition of Earth's ...

More than a century ago, explorers from several countries raced to reach the globe’s southernmost point, driven by fierce international rivalries. Now, a new race is under way in Antarctica, this time ...

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The synchronization of data from two natural climate archives -- a speleothem from the Herbstlabyrinth Cave in Hesse (Germany) and ice cores from Greenland -- offers new insights into the chronology ...

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 ...