Antarctica's patterns of stark seasonal changes, with months of darkness followed by a summer of 24-hour daylight, prompted ...

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Antarctica, uncovering a 1.2-million-year-old ice core. This ancient ice holds valuable data on past climate conditions, which could help us ...

Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise ...

Scientists have drilled 1.7 miles deep into Antarctica, pulling up an ice core sample that dates back at least 1.2 million years. They expect the sample to offer new insights into the evolution of ...

At the bottom of the world lies a region as magnificent as it is misunderstood: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Harsh, ...

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 ...

One such attraction is a 3-million-year-old volcano on Edinburgh Hill in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. A video going viral on Instagram shows glimpses of this ancient volcano. As shared in ...

Data from the "Million Year Ice Core" could also improve the accuracy of climate change forecasts. The team plans to resume drilling during the 2025/26 summer and expects to reach the 3,000m mark ...

Osterberg said ice core samples showed ice ages 1 million years ago occurred every 40,000 years. Then about 800,000 years ago, ice ages jumped to occur every 100,000 years.

What an ancient ice core from Antarctica can tell us about our climate’s past and future. Aired 01/12/2025. What ancient ice from Antarctica tells us about the climate.

Antarctica's annual maximum sea ice extent in September 2023 was the lowest on record, with approximately 1.75 million square kilometers less sea ice than normal—an area equivalent to about 6.5 ...

Antarctica’s patterns of stark seasonal changes, with months of darkness followed by a summer of 24-hour daylight, prompted us to explore how a Maori lunar and environmental calendar (Maramataka) ...