Glaciers can reveal vast archives of information about Earth's environmental past, but deciphering the origins of the matter ...

Researcher Peter Neff and his team are studying glaciers in Antarctica and British Columbia to gain insights about Earth’s ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A windy day at Allan Hills in December 2022. (Peter Neff/COLDEX) The rapid climate change we are experiencing today is mainly ...

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 ...

SAPPORO - Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing ...

Stanislav Kutuzov felt the drillhead he was controlling smash into the rock more than 100 meters below him high on a glacier in the Pamir peaks of Tajikistan. The ice core samples it took could help ...

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 record of hydrogen reveals that atmospheric levels vary in response to climate change and have increased drastically owing to human activity since the pre-industrial era. The apparent ...