The COLDEX project is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation. It uses radar to find locations to collect ice that will ultimately give a 1.5- million-year-old record of the Earth's climate.

The planet’s oldest ice was drilled from within the Antarctic ice sheet, and could provide new insights into the evolution of ...

Scientists have recently received a groundbreaking ice core that could hold the secrets to understanding Earth’s past climate ...

Trees, rocks, and ice are united by a quintessential job: Each catalog climate history. Lonnie Thompson, a paleoclimatologist who’s studied ice core records since the late 1970s puts it this way ...

A 12,000-year-old Alpine ice core reveals Europe once endured massive dust storms and sea salt surges—evidence of a radically ...

New tool for reconstructing ancient sea ice to study climate change Date: January 4, 2021 Source: Brown University Summary: A previously problematic molecule turns out to be a reliable proxy for ...

An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years.

Part of every ice core is archived in another, larger room at about minus 33 degrees, so future researchers can verify old results or try new tests. The archive contains nearly 56,000 feet of ice.

By linking the genomes of ancient viral communities to specific climate conditions preserved in glacier ice, our newly published research offers insights into how these viruses have adapted to ...

U.S. Geological Survey scientist Joan Fitzpatrick is looking at samples from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to research how these masses of frozen water respond to changing climate.

Opening in the fall of 2001, Ancient Ice, Cool Science: Climate Change in the North examined contemporary research on climate change in the Arctic. Using case studies drawn from current research, the ...

Part of every ice core is archived in another, larger room at about minus 33 degrees, so future researchers can verify old results or try new tests. The archive contains nearly 56,000 feet of ice.