The borehole was drilled into the blue ice so researchers could study gases inside air bubbles trapped in the ice cores.
The 9,186-foot-long ice core was drilled out from the Little Dome C, which is one of the harshest locations on the planet.
Deep beneath the barren landscape of Antarctica lies secrets to the climatic history of the world. Frozen in the ice are ...
An international team of Earth and life scientists, hydrologists, chemists, and physicists, has found evidence showing that ...
An ultra-powerful eruption 79,500 years ago may not have disrupted the climate as badly as feared, according to Earth ...
Antarctica’s ice caps have been shaping the ocean for millions of years, but recent discoveries reveal icebergs existed even ...
The Trump administration is sabotaging the country’s gold-standard climate science in Antarctica and around the world.
In February, temperatures spiked up to 11 degrees Celsius above average near the North Pole as the world continued its ...
A massive iceberg known as A23a is currently on a collision course with South Georgia Island, threatening to disrupt the ...
Greenland’s Ice Sheet will surely continue its unprecedented melt.  But will the melting ice expose more rock that might push ...
Now, in the 41st expedition, which began last November and will be on till May, China has acquired key parameters such as ...