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.

Evidence from a 2,000-foot-long ice core reveals that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrank suddenly and dramatically around 8,000 years ago, according to new research — providing an alarming ...

Australian scientists have started analysing the first batch of samples from the 'Million Year Ice Core' project.

Deep beneath the icy expanse of Antarctica lies a 9,186-foot-long ice core, a time capsule from 1.2 million years ago, holding mysteries of our planet's past.

The ice column is the length of six Empire State buildings. It represents ancient record of the Earth's climate and the story of a once warm Antarctica before it morphed into a snowy desert. Carlo ...

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core Project recently finished extracting the longest ice core ever drilled by U.S. scientists in Antarctica. The ice core -- a cylindrical sample of ice ...

Scientists in Antarctica successfully drilled thousands of feet beneath the surface and excavated an unprecedented ice core that reveals at least 1.2 million years of Earth's history.

Ice core from Antarctica indicates record warming spike 19,000 years ago Peer-Reviewed Publication. University of Colorado at Boulder ...

An Antarctic ice core details changes in the Earth’s temperature, rainfall, and wind over hundreds of thousands of years by Rachel Becker Feb 10, 2017, 10:05 PM UTC ...

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 deep ...

Air bubbles within a deep ice core drilled in Antarctica could reveal why Earth suddenly began to experience longer ice ages nearly 1 million years ago. CNN values your feedback 1.