Air bubbles within a deep ice core drilled in Antarctica could reveal why Earth suddenly began to experience longer ice ages ...

An international team of scientists say they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 ...

Scientists have drilled 1.7 miles deep into Antarctica, pulling up an ice core sample that dates back at least 1.2 million ...

In a remarkable scientific achievement, researchers from the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project have successfully drilled a ...

Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more ...

What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica.

This newly extracted ice preserved a record of our planet’s climate history, continuous information on atmospheric ...

An international team of researchers from twelve institutions across ten European countries has achieved an unprecedented ...

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the “Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice” project, funded by the European Commission, has achieved a ...

An international team of scientists successfully drilled a nearly 2-mile-deep ice core, reaching the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. These ice samples are expected to unveil, for the first ...

By drilling 1.7 miles beneath the icy surface, the team has pulled a 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctic bedrock.