The Ice Memory Foundation, a consortium of European research institutes, inaugurated the frozen sanctuary on Wednesday at the ...

With its temperature of -50°C, the archive sanctuary built below the surface at Concordia will allow endangered ice cores ...

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 ...

Entombed beneath the Antarctic Ice sheet is a library sprawling with records of Earth’s geological history. Scientists, who are bold enough to venture into Antarctica, often drill pipe-shaped ice ...

Scientists studying ancient glacier cores have made a groundbreaking discovery, unearthing evidence of a previously unknown climate event. This novel finding has the potential to dramatically reshape ...

After years as a professional research assistant at INSTAAR’s stable isotope lab, Valerie Morris estimates she’s processed more than 10 kilometers of ice from around the world. “You’ve done more ice ...

Like the inverse of the mythical butterfly flapping its wings in China, an ice core extracted from Greenland can reveal the rise and fall of societies in European antiquity. A new study took ice cores ...

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