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

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

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 ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

which they will collect in their upcoming COLDEX seasons. Peterson said the COLDEX team will continue to drill more ice cores from the Alan Hills and the Elephant Moraine to find old ice hiding ...

Australian scientists are hunting for an ice core that could unlock a puzzle millions of years in the making.

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