Spread the loveIn a groundbreaking study published on April 2, 2026, scientists have unveiled a treasure trove of climate history embedded in Antarctic ice cores, dating back an astonishing 3 million ...

Deep beneath glaciers and polar ice caps lies Earth’s climate history—preserved in frozen layers over hundreds of thousands of years. Ice cores act as time capsules, helping scientists study past ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Much like the ice he helped preserve for decades, Chester “Chet” Langway’s legacy at the University at Buffalo endures. Faculty here are still studying the ancient sediments that ...

Researchers of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the Austrian Academy of Science drill an ice core at Weißseespitze, Ötztal Alps, in 2018. Photograph by Prof Andrea Fischer. Ice cores taken ...

Inside an ice-cold laboratory in Hobart, where the temperature is almost 20 degrees Celsius below zero, scientists in thick puffer jackets begin their work. Wearing gloves, they carefully pull out a ...

An ice core from the Weißseespitze Glacier collected in 2019 gave researchers a peek into the history of Earth’s wildfires, volcanic eruptions, and anthropogenic activity. In the years since, much of ...

Ice is a fickle substance. In the Pacific Northwest, most of it comes in the winter and melts away in the summer. Even our glaciers have come and gone every few thousand years as the climate shifts.

Drilling through 500 feet of floating ice into the Antarctic Ocean floor, climate scientists have retrieved a rare 23-million-year record of sediments that helps demonstrate why the planet’s southern ...

Glacier ice contains valuable information about the climates of the past. Researchers are scrambling to study them before it's too late.