Within the ice fields of Mount Kilimanjaro, scientists have made an amazing find: they’ve discovered proof of a drought so severe that it may have changed history. A dense layer of dust buried in the ...

Caption The team at NEEM celebrates the final core sample collected at bedrock level, or over 8,300 feet beneath the Greenland ice sheet. The multi-year drilling project was a collaboration of ...

But cores collected from the edge of the continent ... those fluctuations used to be much smaller than they are today. To that end, the ice samples afford researchers a chance to compare today's ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The US government removes ice from places like Antarctica and Greenland and brings it to the National Ice Core Laboratory in Colorado. There, the ice is kept in a ...

The extracted ice core harbors data such as historical atmospheric temperatures, as well as incredibly preserved samples of air – and the greenhouse gases within it – spanning thousands of years.

For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ...

Well, scientists have such a time machine. It's called an ice core. Scientists collect ice cores by driving a hollow tube deep into the miles-thick ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland (and in ...

An international team of scientists announced Thursday they've successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles (2.8 kilometers) to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice ...

The Ice Core Excavator (ICE) is an undergraduate-student designed payload for a commercial quadcopter drone. ICE is a tool for climate scientists studying snow algae, black carbon, and other surface ...

By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have obtained the first historical record of plastic pollution in ...

The extracted ice cores contain air bubbles, which are a direct sample of 200 year old atmosphere in Antarctica. Dr Thomas Bauska, a research fellow at British Antarctic Survey, demonstrates how ...