Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to ...

If you could look back in time, what would you search out? Would you head back to Ancient Egypt, visit the dinosaurs, step into Medieval times, or even the Stone Age? Think of all the unsolved ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...

The five tents sitting on the white expanse of the Clark Glacier look more like a winter camping site than a scientific field camp. Skis stick out of the snow. A pot on the propane stove holds melted ...

Studying ice cores can help scientists find out more about the climate in the past. A section of the ice core sample taken on Kon Chukurbashi is labeled at the summit. Swiss glaciologist Andreas Henz ...

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 ...

A researcher at Japan's Hokkaido University Institute of Low Temperature Science cuts a slice from an ice core sample taken from a glacier in the Pamir mountain range ...