While hydrogen itself doesn’t trap greenhouse gases, its interaction with other gases can indirectly heat the atmosphere 11 ...

An international research team has recovered the longest sediment core ever drilled from beneath an ice sheet. The core ...

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Researchers from the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (COLDEX), led by Sarah Shackleton of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and John Higgins from Princeton University, were able to extract ...

Frozen deep beneath Antarctica and Greenland lies something remarkable. Tiny bubbles of ancient air, locked away in ice for hundreds of thousands of years, hold secrets about our planet's past.

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 ...

Deep beneath Antarctica’s ice, scientists have uncovered a geological archive that could reshape predictions of future sea-level rise.

As the planet continues to warm, the world is losing 273 billion tonnes of glacial ice every year, and scientists are scrambling to preserve the climate data locked within these glaciers. On Wednesday ...

Scientists collect core samples from the polar ice sheets to learn about our planet’s climatic past. This core, extracted in Greenland in 2019, contains the Vedde ash layer, likely remnants of an ...