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

Jacob Chalif is part of a three-month mission with COLDEX — the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration — searching to record the Earth's climate history through ancient ice.

The oldest known ice in Western Europe lay at the summit of the French Alps, with the Mont Blanc glacier acting as an archive ...

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 ...

Brown University. (2021, January 4). New tool for reconstructing ancient sea ice to study climate change. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 01 ...

Evidence of algae growth and climate simulations reveal the Arctic had seasonal ice, not a permanent ice shelf, for much of the past 750,000 years. These insights challenge long-standing theories. For ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inside the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver rests more than 11 miles of ice, drilled from Earth's glaciers, which are shedding new light on the dimly understood history of the planet's ...

Smooth and milky white, the 4- to 5-inch-diameter pieces — called ice cores — provide scientists with a wealth of historical information, from air temperature to greenhouse gases to evidence ...