Imagine prying open a time capsule sealed since the days of saber-toothed cats. That’s more or less what a team of American scientists did when they extracted ice cores from a remote corner of ...

Researchers have drilled 523 meters through Antarctica’s ice, uncovering a sediment core that spans 23 million years of climate history. The core, retrieved from the remote Crary Ice Rise in West ...

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 ...

ROME (AP) — Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth’s atmosphere in a frozen vault for future ...

Scientists studying ancient ice in Greenland have uncovered a warning for the modern world: A relatively modest eruption in Oregon sent ash more than 5,000 kilometers across North America and the ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Ice core measurements are scientists' best tool for analyzing the atmospheric changes that occurred ...