Marissa Grunes is a freelance science writer and Lecturer in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics and Society at CU Boulder. Every semester, she takes first-year Engineering students on a tour ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ice core sample from the European Alps has been the first to be dated to the last Ice Age, providing vital historical ...

After years as a professional research assistant at INSTAAR’s stable isotope lab, Valerie Morris estimates she’s processed more than 10 kilometers of ice from around the world. “You’ve done more ice ...

If you pull an ice core from the outer edges of the Arctic polar cap, you might spot what looks like a faint line of dirt. Those are diatoms—single-celled algae with outer walls made of glass. Their ...

These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed light on how human-generated emissions will shape our planet’s future. Reading ...

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 ...

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Glaciers held the narratives of a time before us as they accumulated. However, the transition in climate destroyed this evidence. A new study employed the study of an Alpine ice core to record the ...

Representing the longest continuous record of the Earth’s climate, the giant ice core may soon unlock some much-wanted data into Earth's climate history. Reading time 3 minutes Antarctic ice cores are ...

Last winter, after a 50-day ocean voyage from Italy’s coast to the East Antarctic Plateau, two samples of glacier ice from the European Alps arrived at Antarctica’s Concordia Station. Inside the ...

An ice core sample from the European Alps has been the first to be dated to the last Ice Age, providing vital historical environmental data stretching back across the last 12,000 years. The discovery ...