An ice core sample from the European Alps has been the first to be dated to the last Ice Age, providing vital historical environmental data stretching back across the last 12,000 years. The discovery ...
An international research team has extracted the oldest continuous ice core ever recovered from Antarctica, a cylinder of ...
Glaciers hold layers of history preserved in ice, offering unique insights into Earth's past that can also help us interpret the future. Trapped amidst the frozen water are microscopic deposits of ...
Researchers from Europe have spent more than 200 days braving sub-zero temperatures at a drilling site near Antarctica's Concordia Research Station. This month, they finally saw the fruit of their ...
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 ...
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 ...
At the National Ice Core Facility in Lakewood, Colorado, ice is sliced up with band saws. (Amanda Pampuro/Courthouse News) Silver band saws inside Colorado's National Ice Core Facility.