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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.