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

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

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 ...

“We have a strong indication that the uppermost 2,480 meters contain a climate record that goes back to 1.2 million years in ...

The first ice core drilling campaign of Beyond Epica-Oldest Ice has been successfully completed at the remote Little Dome C site in Antarctica – one of the most extreme places on Earth.

Scientists in the Antarctic have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice—drilling down 1.7 miles for ice samples a ...

Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

In 2017, scientists discovered amber in a sediment core from the Antarctic, and analysis since has revealed a startling truth ...

An ice core drilled by a research team is displayed at Little Dome C field base in eastern Antarctica, during the cutting phase on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (PNRA/IPEV Beyond Epica via AP) An ...