Glaciers serve as Earth's archives, preserving crucial data about our past climate within their ancient ice. Their disappearance threatens not only water security and unique ecosystems ...

A new map of climate conditions during the Pliocene epoch—the last time Earth’s carbon dioxide concentrations hit 400 parts ...

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"When we want to know the climate of ... by drilling inside glaciers, sometimes several kilometers down, are literally frozen in time, offering scientists a glimpse into an ancient past.

“We have a strong indication that the uppermost 2,480 meters contain a climate record that goes back to 1.2 million years in a high-resolution record where up to 13,000 years are compressed into one ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more than 200 days, drilling into the ice and processing the ice core at a remote ...

A nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after millennia hidden under ice in the Rocky Mountains. A team ...

Landslides have uncovered pieces of an ancient glacier near Baffin Island. Researchers believe this is the oldest glacier ice ...