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.

A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.

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.

Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more than 200 days, drilling into the ice and processing the ice core at a remote ...

In a remarkable scientific achievement, researchers from the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project have successfully drilled a 2,800-meter (9,186-foot) long ice core from the remote Little Dome C site in ...

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has achieved a historic milestone this week, by ...

Scientists have successfully extracted what is likely the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2 million years, from deep within Antarctica.

A team of scientists has uncovered a million-year-old ice core in Antarctica that could unlock critical climate history ...

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

Scientists say they have tapped into an extraordinary archive of the Earth’s climate in the ice deep beneath Antarctica. They hope it will help them understand both how the climate changed in the past ...

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

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the “Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice” project, funded by the European Commission, has achieved a historic milestone for climate science. An international team of scientists ...