Representing the longest continuous record of the Earth’s climate, the giant ice core may soon unlock some much-wanted data into Earth's climate history.

The five tents sitting on the white expanse of the Clark Glacier look more like a winter camping site than a scientific field camp. Skis stick out of the snow. A pot on the propane stove holds melted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: You are looking at some of the oldest ice ever recovered from Antarctica. :: Cambridge, England This week, these cylinder ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Greenhouse gases trapped in 3,000 year-old Antarctic ice are being extracted and analysed for clues to Earth's climate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a scientist weather a larger winder coat and hat examines a cylindrical piece of ice “From preliminary analyses recorded at Little ...

Deep in East Antarctica, scientists have recovered ice containing tiny pockets of air that remained sealed foraround 6 ...

India, May 25 -- A joint China-Nepal scientific expedition has completed the first full-depth ice core drilling at the summit of Mt Everest to collect samples for understanding climate and ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...

Members of the scientific expedition team conduct ice core drilling near the C2 camp at an altitude of 6,200 meters on Mount ...

A researcher at Japan's Hokkaido University Institute of Low Temperature Science cuts a slice from an ice core sample taken from a glacier in the Pamir mountain range ...