An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

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Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more than 200 days, drilling into the ice and processing the ice core at a remote ...

“We have a strong indication that the uppermost 2,480 meters contain a climate record that goes back to 1.2 million years in ...

We will understand when Antarctica was completely covered by ... researchers and support personnel had previously drilled an ice core dating back about 800,000 years. That ice, and the air bubbles ...

An international team of scientists, including a researcher from the University of Manitoba, has drilled what’s believed to ...

Scientists in the Antarctic have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice—drilling down 1.7 miles for ice samples a ...

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

The size variations in the Antarctic ice sheet over time have confirmed its unstable nature, made worse by greenhouse ...

Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...