The rapid climate change we are experiencing today is mainly driven by the greenhouse gases we humans keep releasing into the ...

If you could look back in time, what would you search out? Would you head back to Ancient Egypt, visit the dinosaurs, step into Medieval times, or even the Stone Age? Think of all the unsolved ...

While hydrogen itself doesn’t trap greenhouse gases, its interaction with other gases can indirectly heat the atmosphere 11 times faster than carbon dioxide does.

The Weißseespitze glacier ice core analysis reveals long-term records of atmospheric pollution, emphasizing the impact of ...

New analyses of ancient ice from Antarctica and the air contained inside it are extending the history of Earth's climate ...

The five tents sitting on the white expanse of the Clark Glacier look more like a winter camping site than a scientific field camp. Skis stick out of the snow. A pot on the propane stove holds melted ...

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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A minus-40-degree vault concealed in a federal government warehouse west of Denver holds the climate science equivalent of gold: the United States’ growing collection of ice from around a warming ...

Ice Memory Foundation’s specially dug ‘sanctuary’ offers storage for cores, which hold thousands of years of history Last month the Ice Memory Foundation opened the first ever sanctuary for mountain ...

A researcher at Japan's Hokkaido University Institute of Low Temperature Science cuts a slice from an ice core sample taken from a glacier in the Pamir mountain range ...