Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

An ice core is a long drilled sample of ice from a glacier. After a few meters, the ice thusly drilled formed hundreds, even ...

Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical infrastructure. Though ...

An expedition earlier this year to the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan retrieved two ice cores from a glacier that seems to be perplexingly increasing in size.

On Wednesday, the Ice Memory Foundation stored the first two Alpine ice core samples from Mont Blanc and Grand Combin in a ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza As warming accelerates glacier melt worldwide, researchers warn that ancient ice and modern ...

Glaciers have long been treated as symbols of permanence, yet scientists are now able to sketch a surprisingly precise window for when most of them will be gone. New modeling work suggests not only ...

There's evidence trapped in ancient ice that during warm periods millions of years ago, the ice-free Southern Ocean responded ...

The earthquakes, while low in magnitude, spell a troubling fate for the glacier. The post Doomsday Glacier Bombarded by ...

A study published in Science finds that twice as much of the world's glacier mass could be preserved by meeting the 1.5°C threshold set by the Paris Agreement. Current climate policies put the world ...

They say time is an ever-flowing river and these ones take a LOT of time. This week, we’re bundled up and headed far north (or south) in search of glaciers. * First, the basics. Glaciers really are ...

Concordia Station, jointly operated by the Italian National Antarctic Research Program and the French Polar Institute, will preserve the cores for centuries.