“The Memory of Darkness, Light and Ice” won the national News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Science and Technology ...

Glaciers hold layers of history preserved in ice, offering unique insights into Earth's past that can also help us interpret the future. Trapped amidst the frozen water are microscopic deposits of ...

An ice core sample from the European Alps has been the first to be dated to the last Ice Age, providing vital historical environmental data stretching back across the last 12,000 years. The discovery ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...

Some ice cores preserved at the National Ice Core Facility in Lakewood, Colorado, are adorned with artwork. (Amanda Pampuro/Courthouse News) Numerous ice samples stacked inside metal tubes at the ...

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 ...