ANSTO scientists, Dr. Andrew Smith, Dr. Quan Hua and Dr. Bin Yang have contributed to a paper that elucidates how in situ cosmogenic radiocarbon (14 C) is produced, retained and lost in the top layer ...

Scientists on Wednesday sealed ancient chunks of glacial ice in a first-of-its-kind sanctuary in Antarctica in the hope of preserving these fast-disappearing records of Earth's past climate for ...

Scientists in East Antarctica are about to get a peek into the Earth’s climate history dating back 1.2 million years thanks to freshly drilled ice core samples. The cores just might provide us with ...

Beijing: A collaborative scientific expedition from China and Nepal has successfully executed the first comprehensive ice core drilling at the peak of Mt Everest, aiming to gather samples that will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of scientists is in a race against time in the Arctic. Valuable climate data is at risk of disappearing as our overheating ...

A new study on ice cores from Alaska and Greenland found that air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels reaches the remote Arctic in amounts large enough to alter its fundamental atmospheric ...

India, May 25 -- A joint China-Nepal scientific expedition has completed the first full-depth ice core drilling at the summit of Mt Everest to collect samples for understanding climate and ...

As glaciers melt around the globe, scientists are racing to retrieve ice cores that contain key historical records of temperature and climate that are preserved in the ice. Researchers are also ...

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An ice-core record of hydrogen reveals that atmospheric levels vary in response to climate change and have increased drastically owing to human activity since the pre-industrial era. The apparent ...

Arctic poppy (Papaver radicatum) flowering on rock, Disko-Bay, West-Greenland, Greenland. The heart of Greenland has recently been green. A two-mile-deep ice core from the very center of Greenland’s ...

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Margit Schwikowski helicoptered up to Switzerland’s Corbassière ...