Scientists have drilled 1.7 miles deep into Antarctica, pulling up an ice core sample that dates back at least 1.2 million ...

An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample extended so deep that ...

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 ...

An autonomous research sub sent beneath the Antarctic ice returned images of vast, sculpted structures that no one can yet ...

Humans have been recording the weather for thousands of years. 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 ...

Scientists say they have tapped into an extraordinary archive of the Earth’s climate in the ice deep beneath Antarctica. They hope it will help them understand both how the climate changed in the past ...

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Antarctic ice loss increased rapidly in past climates when oceans warmed first, raising risks for modern coastlines.

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