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Scientists drilled a 2-mile-deep ice core in Antarctica, allowing them to peer back in time at Earth's climate over 1.2 ...

Scientists say they have tapped into an extraordinary archive of the Earth’s climate in the ice deep beneath Antarctica. They hope it will help them understand both how the climate changed in ...

An international team of researchers announced that they have successfully drilled a 2.8-kilometer-long ice core from ...

The size variations in the Antarctic ice sheet over time have confirmed its unstable nature, made worse by greenhouse ...

Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 kilometers) ice core in Antarctica, hitting the frozen continent ...

A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, stretching ...

“We have a strong indication that the uppermost 2,480 meters contain a climate record that goes back to 1.2 million years in ...

A historic ice core recently drilled from deep beneath the Antarctic surface by the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project. Credit: Scoto © / PNRA / IPEV At an extremely ...

A team of scientists has uncovered a million-year-old ice core in Antarctica that could unlock critical climate history ...

Scientists in the Antarctic have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice—drilling down 1.7 miles for ice samples a ...

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters ...