On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples from glaciers rescued worldwide are now beginning to be stored there for ...

A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every smear starts to read like a diary.

An international research team has recovered the longest sediment core ever drilled from beneath an ice sheet. The core ...

An international research team has extracted the oldest continuous ice core ever recovered from Antarctica, a cylinder of frozen climate history stretching back approximately 1.2 million years. The ...

The world’s first sanctuary for ice cores has officially opened its doors in Antarctica. By safeguarding these natural "time capsules," scientists are preserving essential data ...

Deep beneath Antarctica’s ice, scientists have uncovered a geological archive that could reshape predictions of future sea-level rise.

As the planet continues to warm, the world is losing 273 billion tonnes of glacial ice every year, and scientists are scrambling to preserve the climate data locked within these glaciers. On Wednesday ...

A University of Minnesota researcher is back home after a months-long journey to the end of the earth, collecting ice samples that are likely millions of years old. "Not a day goes by where I don't ...

Researchers are looking into our planet’s past to understand its future. Just like archaeologists investigate layers of dirt for ancient artifacts, geologists analyze layers in cores—tube-shaped ...