Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...

The five tents sitting on the white expanse of the Clark Glacier look more like a winter camping site than a scientific field camp. Skis stick out of the snow. A pot on the propane stove holds melted ...

Greenland's ice sheet reveals a 12,000-year mercury record, showing human contamination far predates industrial eras. Early ...

The team had to bring the core samples—dozens of cylinders of ice about 50 centimeters (20 inches) long—to the surface carefully. They then numbered and packed the samples so they could be carried ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a scientist weather a larger winder coat and hat examines a cylindrical piece of ice “From preliminary analyses recorded at Little ...

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 ...

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Have you heard about scientists who drill ice cores? Ice cores are samples taken from glaciers using special machines that go deep down into the glacier and take out solid tubes of ice and bring them ...

Researchers drilled through 509 meters of firn and ice at Prudhoe Dome in northwestern Greenland and pulled up sediment that ...

A researcher at Japan's Hokkaido University Institute of Low Temperature Science cuts a slice from an ice core sample taken from a glacier in the Pamir mountain range ...