Usually, when an ice cube crashes, collides, and grinds against another ice cube, it produces sounds like a thud, a clang, or a clunk. But when John Andrew Higgins (@blueicehiggins) dropped down a ...

A new study of Antarctic ice cores published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has extended our record of Earth's climate conditions back 6 million years, Oregon State University ...

A team of scientists have drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice that is at least 1.2 million years old. The same team previously drilled ...

About 50 miles north of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, nestling in the South Victoria Land, the glassy blue ice of Allan Hills glows in sunlight like a vast, flattened pearl. Except for this glow, ...

A historic ice core recently drilled from deep beneath the Antarctic surface by the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project. Credit: Scoto © / PNRA / IPEV At an extremely ...