The Ice Memory Foundation, a consortium of European research institutes, inaugurated the frozen sanctuary on Wednesday at the ...

With its temperature of -50°C, the archive sanctuary built below the surface at Concordia will allow endangered ice cores extracted from the Andes, Svalbard, the Alps, the Caucasus, and the Pamir ...

Scientists establish the first global ice archive beneath Antarctica to preserve climate records as glaciers decline.

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 ...

Scientists studying ancient glacier cores have made a groundbreaking discovery, unearthing evidence of a previously unknown climate event. This novel finding has the potential to dramatically reshape ...

Entombed beneath the Antarctic Ice sheet is a library sprawling with records of Earth’s geological history. Scientists, who are bold enough to venture into Antarctica, often drill pipe-shaped ice ...

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 ...

Scientists collect core samples from the polar ice sheets to learn about our planet’s climatic past. This core, extracted in Greenland in 2019, contains the Vedde ash layer, likely remnants of an ...