The five tents sitting on the white expanse of the Clark Glacier look more like a winter camping site than a scientific field camp. Skis stick out of the snow. A pot on the propane stove holds melted ...

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 glaciers. The ...

Scientists have retrieved the deepest sediment core ever from beneath Antarctic ice, spanning nearly 23 million years. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: You are looking at some of the oldest ice ever recovered from Antarctica. :: Cambridge, England This week, these cylinder ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a scientist weather a larger winder coat and hat examines a cylindrical piece of ice “From preliminary analyses recorded at Little ...

The team had to bring the core samples—dozens of cylinders of ice about 50 centimeters (20 inches) long—to the surface carefully. They then numbered and packed the samples so they could be carried ...

Glaciers can reveal vast archives of information about Earth's environmental past, but deciphering the origins of the matter within them can be a challenge. Now, using a novel technique that enables ...

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Have you heard about scientists who drill ice cores? Ice cores are samples taken from glaciers using special machines that go deep down into the glacier and take out solid tubes of ice and bring them ...

A researcher at Japan's Hokkaido University Institute of Low Temperature Science cuts a slice from an ice core sample taken from a glacier in the Pamir mountain range ...