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The location of Muztag ata glacier on the Tibetan Plateau and the influence of Westerly jet and Indian monsoon are shown in panel a. The ice core sampling strategy is illustrated in panel (b). Briefly ...

An ancient glacier high in the French Alps has revealed the oldest known ice in Western Europe—dating back over 12,000 years to the last Ice Age. This frozen archive, meticulously analyzed by ...

In the summer of 2025, an international research team processes over 2,800 metres of ice in the Alfred Wegener Institute's ice laboratory. It comes from the oldest continuous ice core ever drilled on ...

Arctic poppy (Papaver radicatum) flowering on rock, Disko-Bay, West-Greenland, Greenland. The heart of Greenland has recently been green. A two-mile-deep ice core from the very center of Greenland’s ...

Have you heard about scientists who drill ice cores? Ice cores are samples taken from glaciers using special machines that go deep down into the glacier and take out solid tubes of ice and bring them ...

"Our ice is much colder and probably older than Grigoriev, which gives us hope," said Miles, back in the Tajik capital Dushanbe in October. "Only laboratory analysis will confirm this, but we hope the ...

An ice-core record of hydrogen reveals that atmospheric levels vary in response to climate change and have increased drastically owing to human activity since the pre-industrial era. The apparent ...

A new study from Chloe Brashear, Tyler Jones and others suggests abrupt warming events were preceded by periods of unusually stable temperatures during the last ice age. The researchers point toward ...

There is indirect evidence that, during the last interglacial period, about 125,000 years ago, parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated. An ice core drilled from the ice sheet near the ...