The rapid climate change we are experiencing today is mainly driven by the greenhouse gases we humans keep releasing into the air. But new evidence from ancient Antarctic ice cores suggests this ...

Frozen deep beneath Antarctica and Greenland lies something remarkable. Tiny bubbles of ancient air, locked away in ice for hundreds of thousands of years, hold secrets about our planet's past.

Humans have been recording the weather for thousands of years. Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 ...

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Scientists collect core samples from the polar ice sheets to learn about our planet’s climatic past. This core, extracted in Greenland in 2019, contains the Vedde ash layer, likely remnants of an ...

Arctic poppy (Papaver radicatum) flowering on rock, Disko-Bay, West-Greenland, Greenland. The heart of Greenland has recently been green. A two-mile-deep ice core from the very center of Greenland’s ...

Much like the ice he helped preserve for decades, Chester “Chet” Langway’s legacy at UB endures. Faculty members here are still studying the ancient sediments that Langway’s team pulled from nearly a ...

Secrets of the Earth’s past climate locked in a three-kilometre long Antarctic ice core are revealed this week in the journal Nature. The core from Dome C, high on East Antarctica’s plateau, contains ...

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples from glaciers rescued worldwide are now beginning to be stored there for ...