Scientists have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice core at Little Dome C in East Antarctica. Extracted during the ...

Like the inverse of a butterfly flapping its wings in China, ice cores extracted in Greenland show the rise and fall of ...

Above: A core section of ice from more than 500 feet below the surface of Antarctica sees the light of day for the first time in over 3000 years. The ice drilling rig is seen at left, in operation ...

An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles (2.8 kilometers) to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice ...

Scientists have drilled down into the ice and extracted a core which is 2.8km long where the deepest part could be up to 1.5million years old. | ITV National News ...

A research team has begun an €11-million (US$12.9-million) project with the hopes of collecting the oldest continuous ice core in Antarctica, providing a record of the climate spanning some 1.5 ...

The core, nearly as long as 25 soccer fields end to end or six and a half times taller than the Empire State Building to the very tip of its antenna, is a “time machine” that captures “an ...

Nation World Scientists drill nearly 2 miles down to pull 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctic The same team previously drilled a core about 800,000 years old.

Europe’s Beyond EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) initiative, now in its third year, hopes to eventually retrieve the oldest core yet, dating back 1.5 million years.