New analyses of ancient ice from Antarctica and the air contained inside it are extending the history of Earth's climate records and expanding researchers' understanding of how the planet has changed ...

Ice core records stretching back hundreds of thousands of years show that airborne mineral dust, not carbon dioxide alone, played a leading role in driving some of the most dramatic climate shifts in ...

Ice cores are some of our best natural 'archives' of Earth's long-term climate. They don't necessarily contain a complete, ...

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While hydrogen itself doesn’t trap greenhouse gases, its interaction with other gases can indirectly heat the atmosphere 11 ...

For the first time, scientists have measured atmospheric gases from the late Pliocene, yielding data that could help to predict the future climate ...

It’s a bit like reading a very dense book – it’s small in size, but it’s full of information.” Paleoclimatologists like ...

As the planet continues to warm, the world is losing 273 billion tonnes of glacial ice every year, and scientists are scrambling to preserve the climate data locked within these glaciers. On Wednesday ...

Ice cores taken from glaciers reveal the air pollution of the past, using atmospheric particles incorporated in snow that ...