An ice core from the Weißseespitze Glacier collected in 2019 gave researchers a peek into the history of Earth’s wildfires, ...

A windy day at Allan Hills in December 2022. (Peter Neff/COLDEX) The rapid climate change we are experiencing today is mainly ...

New analyses of ancient ice from Antarctica and the air contained inside it are extending the history of Earth's climate ...

While hydrogen itself doesn’t trap greenhouse gases, its interaction with other gases can indirectly heat the atmosphere 11 times faster than carbon dioxide does.

As climate change continues to be a pressing global issue, scientists are racing against time to analyze Earth’s oldest ice cores. These ancient frozen archives hold invaluable data that could unlock ...

It’s a bit like reading a very dense book – it’s small in size, but it’s full of information.” Paleoclimatologists like ...

Ice cores taken from glaciers reveal the air pollution of the past, using atmospheric particles incorporated in snow that ...

The storing of the very first heritage cores in Antarctica marks a pivotal moment for the Ice Memory project launched in 2015 by CNRS, IRD, the University of Grenoble-Alpes (France), CNR, Ca' Foscari ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center. This story was made possible through the assistance of the U.S. National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs. Inside a tent ...