BUFFALO, N.Y. — Much like the ice he helped preserve for decades, Chester “Chet” Langway’s legacy at the University at Buffalo endures. Faculty here are still studying the ancient sediments that ...

Ancient ice trapped within an ice cap in Northwestern Tibet appears to preserve fragments from the last ice age, extending ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...

The storing of the very first heritage cores in Antarctica marks a pivotal moment for the Ice Memory project launched in 2015 by CNRS, IRD, the University of Grenoble-Alpes (France), CNR, Ca' Foscari ...

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Three kilometres under the East Antarctic plateau sits air that nobody has ever breathed. It fell as snow around 800,000 years ago, was buried by the following winter, and then by every winter since.

Buried under the ice in West Antarctica was a long core of mud and rock containing shell fragments and remains of marine ...

Ice cores extracted by scientists from glaciers or polar ice caps contain air bubbles that have been trapped for millennia. Analysing them provides information about the composition of Earth's ...

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A researcher at Japan’s Hokkaido University Institute of Low Temperature Science cuts a slice from an ice core sample taken from a glacier in the Pamir mountain ...