It holds within it a sample of the ancient atmosphere, offering a rare glimpse into a time when global temperatures and CO₂ ...

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Beneath the thick ice of East Antarctica lies a hidden world—untouched for over 34 million years. This frozen expanse, more ...

We will understand when Antarctica was completely covered by ... researchers and support personnel had previously drilled an ice core dating back about 800,000 years. That ice, and the air bubbles ...

A group of scientists is in a race against time in the Arctic. Valuable climate data is at risk of disappearing as our ...

Antarctic research has received a new boost thanks to a novel new technique providing new insights into how the paleoclimate ...

Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 kilometers) ice core in Antarctica, hitting the frozen continent ...

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has achieved a historic milestone this week, by successfully drilling a 2800-metre-long ice core, consisting of ice from the ...

Ice cores are a pretty good way to get an idea ... Until fairly recently, the oldest ice recovered from the thickest part of Antarctic ice sheets was around 800,000 years old.

a new race is under way in Antarctica, this time motivated by the need to understand one of the gravest threats facing humanity. While other ancient climate records exist, only the ancient ice ...

Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered by very little ocean warming above present-day, leading to a ...

Social media posts are claiming to disprove the effects of climate change in Antarctica by comparing the amount of sea ice ...