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"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

We will understand when Antarctica was completely covered by ... researchers and support personnel had previously drilled an ice core dating back about 800,000 years. That ice, and the air bubbles ...

Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more than 200 days, drilling into the ice and processing the ice core at a remote ...

A research team has drilled into Antarctica and uncovered a 9,186-foot-long ice core dating back 1.2 million years. The core holds several secrets about the Earth's climate. According to Carlo ...

This week, uncover some of the oldest ice on Earth, follow a dinosaur highway, learn how Pluto sealed the capture of its moon Charon with a “kiss,” and more.

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

A historic ice core recently drilled from deep beneath the Antarctic surface by the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project. Credit: Scoto © / PNRA / IPEV At an extremely ...

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters ...