Air bubbles within a deep ice core drilled in Antarctica could reveal why Earth suddenly began to experience longer ice ages nearly 1 million years ago.

Deep beneath the icy expanse of Antarctica lies a 9,186-foot-long ice core, a time capsule from 1.2 million years ago, holding mysteries of our planet's past.

An international team of researchers announced that they have successfully drilled a 2.8-kilometer-long ice core from ...

A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has achieved a historic milestone this week, by ...

Scientists have successfully extracted what is likely the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2 million years, from deep within Antarctica.

A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, stretching ...

A team of scientists has uncovered a million-year-old ice core in Antarctica that could unlock critical climate history ...

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 ...

“In the early 2000s we drilled an ice core from Antarctica that gave us a climate record going back 800,000 years. Now we want to double the length of that record to investigate an important ...