Under bone-chilling conditions, an international team of scientists has unlocked the secrets to better understand a rapidly-warming planet.

If you could look back in time, what would you search out? Would you head back to Ancient Egypt, visit the dinosaurs, step into Medieval times, or even the Stone Age? Think of all the unsolved ...

A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every ...

The five tents sitting on the white expanse of the Clark Glacier look more like a winter camping site than a scientific field camp. Skis stick out of the snow. A pot on the propane stove holds melted ...

Stanislav Kutuzov felt the drillhead he was controlling smash into the rock more than 100 metres below him high on a glacier in the Pamir peaks of Tajikistan. The ice core samples it took could help ...

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Since the samples arrived in November, his team has worked in freezing storage facilities to log the density, alignment of snow grains, and the structure of ice layers. In December, when AFP visited, ...

The 748-foot-long sediment core contains a record of roughly the past 23 million years, including periods when the planet's surface temperature was hotter than it is today ...

ROME (AP) -- Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth's atmosphere in a frozen vault for future ...

Have you heard about scientists who drill ice cores? Ice cores are samples taken from glaciers using special machines that go deep down into the glacier and take out solid tubes of ice and bring them ...

A researcher at Japan's Hokkaido University Institute of Low Temperature Science cuts a slice from an ice core sample taken from a glacier in the Pamir mountain range ...