Air bubbles within a deep ice core drilled in Antarctica could reveal why Earth suddenly began to experience longer ice ages ...

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Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more ...

An international team of scientists say they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 ...

The synchronization of data from two natural climate archives -- a speleothem from the Herbstlabyrinth Cave in Hesse (Germany) and ice cores from Greenland -- offers new insights into the chronology ...

By drilling 1.7 miles beneath the icy surface, the team has pulled a 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctic bedrock.

The research should provide insight into how ice age cycles have changed and help in understanding how atmospheric carbon ...

Scientists drilled a 2-mile-deep ice core in Antarctica, allowing them to peer back in time at Earth's climate over 1.2 ...

Scientists have drilled a deep hole in the Antarctic bedrock that may hold information that dates back more than a million ...

An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample extended so deep ...