Ice core records stretching back hundreds of thousands of years show that airborne mineral dust, not carbon dioxide alone, played a leading role in driving some of the most dramatic climate shifts in ...

The Ice Memory Sanctuary was built to keep samples from glaciers frozen, preserving thousands of years of Earth's climate history for future scientists to study.

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 ...

The rapid climate change we are experiencing today is mainly driven by the greenhouse gases we humans keep releasing into the air. But new evidence from ancient Antarctic ice cores suggests this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctic ice reveals 3 million years of climate history, with cooling tied to only modest greenhouse gas changes. (CREDIT: OSU) ...

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples from glaciers rescued worldwide are now beginning to be stored there for ...

Ice cores taken from glaciers reveal the air pollution of the past, using atmospheric particles incorporated in snow that fell on the glacier and became ice. Now, scientists have extracted a record of ...

Ice cores serve as time‐resolved archives of past atmospheric composition, preserving chemical species deposited through snow accumulation and atmospheric transport. Analyses of ions, trace elements ...

Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to preserve pieces of these glaciers before rising temperatures erase them.

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