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

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Scientists in the Antarctic have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice—drilling down 1.7 miles for ice samples a million years old.

An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, ...

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

Scientists drilled a 2-mile-deep ice core in Antarctica, allowing them to peer back in time at Earth's climate over 1.2 ...

Scientists have drilled a deep hole in the Antarctic bedrock that may hold information that dates back more than a million ...

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

Ice cores are climate scientists’ best way of understand Earth’s climate in the recent geologic past, largely because of the air bubbles trapped within them. An international team of ...

A team of scientists have drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock to reach ...

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