The COLDEX team found the oldest ice to date in the blue ice of the Allan Hills. Photo: Julia Marks Peterson The record for the oldest ice found in Antarctica has been broken by a US research team: In the Allan Hills, they discovered 4.6 million-year-old ice from...
In Ong Valley in the Transantarctic Mountains, researchers have recovered what may be the oldest ice core ever discovered. Photo: Jaakko Putkonen While several teams in East Antarctica are drilling continuous ice cores in search of 1.5 million-year-old ice, another...
The sun determines the space weather. Solar flares or coronal mass ejections have a wide variety of effects on Earth or in near-Earth space, from auroras to disruption of communications systems. Illustration: NASA About 9,200 years ago, a gigantic spectacle may have...
The new DEEPICE network is designed to train young scientists in ice core-related climate science and to best prepare for the drilling of the Beyond EPICA ice core. Photo: British Antarctic Survey A unique European collaboration of a network of international young...
The air of times long past lies frozen in the ice of the Antarctic continent. The small air bubbles at the heart of the ice provide information about the components that made up the Earth’s air thousands of years ago. Image: NASA Ludovic Brucker Finding out the...
