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 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 ...

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 ...