Deep beneath the barren landscape of Antarctica lies secrets to the climatic history of the world. Frozen in the ice are chemical markers which, when studied by scientists, can help reveal a ...

Climate scientists thought stronger atmospheric rivers would accelerate Greenland's ice loss—but it might actually be slowing ...

Scientists get ice core samples of glaciers to study these gases before the ice melts. See the Let’s Explore the Cores article in this issue to learn more about ice cores and how they give us ...

A well-timed atmospheric river dropped enough snow on Greenland for its ice sheet to lose 8% less mass than expected.

The Greenland Ice Sheet is the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere, and it’s melting rapidly. Climate change is ...

Olaf Eisen, a co-author of the study from the Alfred Wegener Institute, notes that this discovery also helps explain why ice cores, taken from deep within the ice sheet, contain fractures called ...

He has made numerous trips to both the North Pole and South Pole to retrieve ice cores—cylinders of ice that are drilled from the depths of glaciers and ice sheets. When studied, ice cores can ...