Scientists on Wednesday sealed ancient chunks of glacial ice in a first-of-its-kind sanctuary in Antarctica in the hope of ...

The Ice Memory Foundation, a consortium of European research institutes, inaugurated the frozen sanctuary on Wednesday at the ...

An ice core is something of a time capsule, containing the history of the Earth’s past atmosphere in a frozen climate archive ...

An ice core is a long drilled sample of ice from a glacier. After a few meters, the ice thusly drilled formed hundreds, even ...

An expedition earlier this year to the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan retrieved two ice cores from a glacier that seems to be ...

Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical infrastructure. Though ...

As marine-terminating glaciers melt, the resulting freshwater is released at the seafloor, which mixes with salty seawater ...

"We have to understand that it's not a question of if the glaciers are going to disappear, they are going to disappear," ...

The paper argues that glaciers can store antibiotic resistance genes for long periods and that climate-driven melting may ...

Climate change is having a tremendous impact on Western Canada glaciers, which experienced their second-worst year of ice ...