At a very southern ribbon-cutting ceremony on the Antarctic snowpack Wednesday, scientists stored long cores of ice taken from two dying Alpine glaciers inside a 30-meter tunnel — safe, for now, from ...
Scientists on Wednesday sealed ancient chunks of glacial ice in a first-of-its-kind sanctuary in Antarctica in the hope of ...
In northwestern Greenland, researchers working on the GreenDrill project have cored through a 500-meter-thick ice dome. They ...
A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...
An Italian study reveals that ancient DNA from Western Hunter-Gatherers, who survived the Ice Age, is more prevalent in ...
Researchers are studying ice cores extracted from Tajikistan, where glaciers have resisted the rapid melting seen almost everywhere else, to determine the cause of the anomaly.
Thin, seasonal ice may have protected ancient lakes on Mars, allowing liquid water to last for decades despite cold ...
When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the air: crushing heat waves that are felt rather than seen, ...
Inside a huge walk-in freezer in suburban Denver, a college student in a thick parka shoots a jolt of electricity through a yard-long column of ice extracted from Antarctica. Just outside the freezer, ...