The ice core with the uncanny chemical signature was discovered in 2013 by officials of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP2), according to The Conversation. In the ice core dated back to around 12, ...

Buried deep in Greenland's ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate. A sharp ...

Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, England, are studying ice cores that may be older than 1.5 million years in hopes that they can reveal clues about our changing climate and ...

Are we all descendants of these 'Mars colonists'? The literature from the past decade is even more interesting, with ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers in Antarctica last week completed the longest ice core ever drilled by U.S. scientists, a 10,928-foot column with some ice up to 100,000 years old, which will give ...

Ice core records of atmospheric hydrogen reveal a huge rise in concentration since the Industrial Revolution which has ...

Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have ...

An ancient glacier high in the French Alps has revealed the oldest known ice in Western Europe—dating back over 12,000 years to the last Ice Age. This frozen archive, meticulously analyzed by ...

A team of U.K. researchers are planning to melt some of the oldest ice on Earth in an ambitious bid to reconstruct up to 1.5 million years of our planet’s climate history. In doing so, they could also ...

Picture flat white snow as far as the horizon. No trees, no rolling mountains. Just an endless scene of ice and frozen earth, underneath an illuminated sky with the sun high in the air, regardless of ...

A new study reveals that asteroid Ryugu once had liquid water. This challenges old beliefs about asteroids. Scientists ...

Hidden within Arctic ice, diatoms are proving to be anything but dormant. New Stanford research shows these glass-walled ...