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The newest arrivals at a subzero lab in Cambridge are not just some blocks of ice — they are time machines. This month, ...
The planet’s oldest ice was drilled from within the Antarctic ice sheet, and could provide new insights into the evolution of ...
The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...
A 12,000-year-old Alpine ice core reveals Europe once endured massive dust storms and sea salt surges—evidence of a radically ...
Like the inverse of a butterfly flapping its wings in China, ice cores extracted in Greenland show the rise and fall of ...
A rapidly melting glacier on Wilczek Island in Russia has uncovered a rare whale graveyard, revealing insights into sea-level ...
The ice was extracted from the deep ocean in East Antarctica earlier this year and is thought to be around 1.2 million years ...
Brown University. (2021, January 4). New tool for reconstructing ancient sea ice to study climate change. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 01 ...
Jacob Chalif is part of a three-month mission with COLDEX — the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration — searching to record the Earth's climate history through ancient ice.
Massive ice core is a ‘time machine’ that could help solve an ancient climate mystery, scientists say Ashley Strickland, CNN Sat, January 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM UTC ...
Trees, rocks, and ice are united by a quintessential job: Each catalog climate history. Lonnie Thompson, a paleoclimatologist who’s studied ice core records since the late 1970s puts it this way ...
Inside the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver rests more than 11 miles of ice, drilled from Earth's glaciers, which are shedding new light on the dimly understood history of the planet's ...