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 ...

Ice core records stretching back hundreds of thousands of years show that airborne mineral dust, not carbon dioxide alone, played a leading role in driving some of the most dramatic climate shifts in ...

Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctic ice reveals 3 million years of climate history, with cooling tied to only modest greenhouse gas changes. (CREDIT: OSU) ...

Researchers from the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (COLDEX), led by Sarah Shackleton of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and John Higgins from Princeton University, were able to extract ...

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 ...

Ice cores taken from glaciers reveal the air pollution of the past, using atmospheric particles incorporated in snow that fell on the glacier and became ice. Now, scientists have extracted a record of ...

Ice cores serve as time‐resolved archives of past atmospheric composition, preserving chemical species deposited through snow accumulation and atmospheric transport. Analyses of ions, trace elements ...

The Last Interglacial, or Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5e (129–116 thousand years ago (ka)) was one of Earth’s most recent relatively warm intervals. Global mean sea levels are estimated to have been ...

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