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The planet’s oldest ice was drilled from within the Antarctic ice sheet, and could provide new insights into the evolution of ...
The newest arrivals at a subzero lab in Cambridge are not just some blocks of ice — they are time machines. This month, ...
The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...
These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed ...
Jacob Chalif is part of a three-month mission with COLDEX — the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration — searching to record the Earth's climate history through ancient ice.
Brown University. (2021, January 4). New tool for reconstructing ancient sea ice to study climate change. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 01 ...
A rapidly melting glacier on Wilczek Island in Russia has uncovered a rare whale graveyard, revealing insights into sea-level ...
Like the inverse of a butterfly flapping its wings in China, ice cores extracted in Greenland show the rise and fall of ...
Trees, rocks, and ice are united by a quintessential job: Each catalog climate history. Lonnie Thompson, a paleoclimatologist who’s studied ice core records since the late 1970s puts it this way ...
Opening in the fall of 2001, Ancient Ice, Cool Science: Climate Change in the North examined contemporary research on climate change in the Arctic. Using case studies drawn from current research, the ...
Inside the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver rests more than 11 miles of ice, drilled from Earth's glaciers, which are shedding new light on the dimly understood history of the planet's ...
At the National Ice Core Laboratory in Lakewood, Colo., ice pulled from the depths of Antarctica and Greenland is sliced up, photographed and tested. Most of it is shipped to other labs, where ...