Researchers have drilled the deepest Antarctic sediment core ever, uncovering 23 million years of climate history beneath the ice sheet.

"The longest sediment cores previously drilled under an ice sheet are less than ten metres. We exceeded our target of 200 ...

An international team of scientists have drilled nearly two miles down into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting an ice core sample that’s estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old, they announced ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PALMYRA — Long before Glacial Till Vineyard and Winery was established southeast of Lincoln — hundreds of thousands of years before — ice sheets pushed clay, gravel and sand from the deep north across ...