New analyses of ancient ice from Antarctica and the air contained inside it are extending the history of Earth's climate ...

The rapid climate change we are experiencing today is mainly driven by the greenhouse gases we humans keep releasing into the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ice cave and cores storage at the Concordia Station in Antarctica. (© Gaetano MaccrÌ-PNRA-IPEV) Designed to protect ice cores from ...

For the first time, scientists have measured atmospheric gases from the late Pliocene, yielding data that could help to predict the future climate ...

In an exciting development for climate science, researchers have extracted an Arctic ice core containing an astonishing 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history. The discovery, reported by the ...

A 23-million-year record hidden beneath Antarctica’s ice may reshape forecasts of how rising temperatures affect global ...

Researchers and scientists from India and other countries have achieved a historic scientific milestone: extracting ice cores from Antarctica that preserve a climate record dating back up to 1.2 ...

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

Scientists reached Antarctic bedrock after drilling 1.7 miles through more than a million years of ice deposits on the white continent. “The objectives of this campaign present unprecedented ...

Rome — Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth’s atmosphere in a frozen vault for future generations to ...

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of East Antarctica. The 6-million-year-old ice and the tiny air bubbles trapped ...