This discovery can help improve forecasts, risk maps, and response plans.

Representing the longest continuous record of the Earth’s climate, the giant ice core may soon unlock some much-wanted data into Earth's climate history.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like the inverse of the mythical butterfly flapping its wings in China, an ice core extracted from Greenland can reveal the rise ...

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 ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has precisely dated an eruption from Newberry Volcano and discovered that its ...

Antarctic ice cores revealed a hidden greenhouse effect that explains why some parts of Antarctica warm more dramatically ...

Our solar system is currently passing through the Local Interstellar Cloud, a region of highly diluted gas and dust between ...

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 ...

An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice they say is at least 1 ...

(CNN) — An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample extended so ...