BUFFALO, N.Y. — Much like the ice he helped preserve for decades, Chester “Chet” Langway’s legacy at the University at Buffalo endures. Faculty here are still studying the ancient sediments that ...

'Extremely exciting': the ice cores that could help save glaciers Hiroshi Hiyama AFP Dec 18, 2025 Updated Dec 19, 2025 0 GREG BAKER A researcher at Japan's Hokkaido University Institute of Low ...

Researchers of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the Austrian Academy of Science drill an ice core at Weißseespitze, Ötztal Alps, in 2018. Photograph by Prof Andrea Fischer. Ice cores taken ...

Spread the loveIn a groundbreaking study published on April 2, 2026, scientists have unveiled a treasure trove of climate history embedded in Antarctic ice cores, dating back an astonishing 3 million ...

Glaciers hold layers of history preserved in ice, offering unique insights into Earth's past that can also help us interpret the future. Trapped amidst the frozen water are microscopic deposits of ...

Deep beneath glaciers and polar ice caps lies Earth’s climate history—preserved in frozen layers over hundreds of thousands of years. Ice cores act as time capsules, helping scientists study past ...

Inside an ice-cold laboratory in Hobart, where the temperature is almost 20 degrees Celsius below zero, scientists in thick puffer jackets begin their work. Wearing gloves, they carefully pull out a ...

Stanislav Kutuzov felt the drillhead he was controlling smash into the rock more than 100 meters below him high on a glacier in the Pamir peaks of Tajikistan. The ice core samples it took could help ...

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