After working and camping for a week on Thwaites Glacier, scientists were ready to start drilling into the ice, if only the ...

Low clouds have lifted long enough for helicopters to ferry scientists and their gear to a fast-melting glacier on the edge ...

Scientists have recovered a deep ice core from a remote part of East Antarctica as they search for answers to one of the most ...

By contrast, obtaining continuous cores from the Antarctic interior typically requires drilling to depths of more than 2,000 meters. "We're still working out the exact conditions that allow such ...

European scientists opened the Ice Memory Sanctuary in Antarctica, preserving glacier ice cores to study past climate, track ...

At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, scientists uncovered something so old it makes even time feel young. Beneath that ...

A new study of Antarctic ice cores published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has extended our record of Earth's climate conditions back 6 million years, Oregon State University ...

Deep under almost three kilometers of Antarctic ice, scientists expected to find a frozen archive of Earth’s distant past. Instead, they uncovered a problem that could erase valuable climate records.

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of East Antarctica. The 6-million-year-old ice and the tiny air bubbles trapped ...