Inside an ice-cold laboratory in Hobart, where the temperature is almost 20 degrees Celsius below zero, scientists in thick puffer jackets begin their work. Wearing gloves, they carefully pull out a ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has precisely dated an eruption from Newberry Volcano and discovered that its ash spread more than 5,000 km across the globe, far further than previously ...

This story was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center. This story was made possible through the assistance of the U.S. National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs. Inside a tent ...

Ice cores serve as time‐resolved archives of past atmospheric composition, preserving chemical species deposited through snow accumulation and atmospheric transport. Analyses of ions, trace elements ...

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 ...

A researcher at Japan's Hokkaido University Institute of Low Temperature Science cuts a slice from an ice core sample taken from a glacier in the Pamir mountain range ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Much like the ice he helped preserve for decades, Chester “Chet” Langway’s legacy at the University at Buffalo endures. Faculty here are still studying the ancient sediments that ...