Greenland's ice sheet reveals a 12,000-year mercury record, showing human contamination far predates industrial eras. Early ...

Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to ...

Imagine prying open a time capsule sealed since the days of saber-toothed cats. That’s more or less what a team of American scientists did when they extracted ice cores from a remote corner of ...

Ice cores taken from glaciers reveal the air pollution of the past, using atmospheric particles incorporated in snow that fell on the glacier and became ice. Now, scientists have extracted a record of ...

Ice loss from Greenland’s massive ice sheet will cause sea levels to rise more during the 21st century than they have during any 100-year period in the last 12,000 years, even if global warming is ...

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples from glaciers rescued worldwide are now beginning to be stored there for ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Ice core measurements are scientists' best tool for analyzing the atmospheric changes that occurred ...

If you want to learn more about human history, you can turn to written records or archaeological artifacts or huge chunks of ice. That's right. Glaciers and other kinds of ice can store clues that ...