Frozen air from Antarctica is giving scientists a longer look at a climate mystery that has lingered for decades: why Earth ...

In an exciting development for climate science, researchers have extracted an Arctic ice core containing an astonishing 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history. The discovery, reported by the ...

Frozen deep beneath Antarctica and Greenland lies something remarkable. Tiny bubbles of ancient air, locked away in ice for hundreds of thousands of years, hold secrets about our planet's past.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ice cave and cores storage at the Concordia Station in Antarctica. (© Gaetano MaccrÌ-PNRA-IPEV) Designed to protect ice cores from ...

Researchers and scientists from India and other countries have achieved a historic scientific milestone: extracting ice cores from Antarctica that preserve a climate record dating back up to 1.2 ...

A sediment core spanning millions of years and new modeling studies point to significant ice retreat under temperatures ...

Scientists have long known that Earth was significantly warmer about 3 million years ago, with much higher sea levels.

In 2019, researchers collected a 9.5-meter ice core from Austria’s Weißseespitze ice cap, which covers the top sections of ...

Ancient ice records show Earth’s oceans cooled over millions of years despite stable greenhouse gases, highlighting the role ...

Antarctic ice cores hint that changes in the ocean might have played a larger part than have greenhouse gases in key climate shifts of the past three million years. At Allan Hills in Antarctica, the ...

A sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 showed the giant northern island 2.7 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius) hotter than its 20th-century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years, ...