Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to ...
If you could look back in time, what would you search out? Would you head back to Ancient Egypt, visit the dinosaurs, step into Medieval times, or even the Stone Age? Think of all the unsolved ...
An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic did not melt during the last interglacial event, suggesting it could ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...