New analyses of ancient ice from Antarctica and the air contained inside it are extending the history of Earth's climate records and expanding researchers' understanding of how the planet has changed ...

A group of scientists is in a race against time in the Arctic. Valuable climate data is at risk of disappearing as our overheating planet melts glacier ice. Our warming world is melting glaciers and ...

A windy day at Allan Hills in December 2022. (Peter Neff/COLDEX) The rapid climate change we are experiencing today is mainly driven by the greenhouse gases we humans keep releasing into the air. But ...

A research team coordinated by the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (Cnr-Isp) and Ca' Foscari University of Venice has successfully extracted deep ice cores from ...

Glaciers hold layers of history preserved in ice, offering unique insights into Earth's past that can also help us interpret the future. Trapped amidst the frozen water are microscopic deposits of ...

In November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction project seven years in the making. They had a short summer window — November to early ...