As glaciers and ice sheets retreat, they are exposing objects, organisms, and landscapes that have been locked away for centuries or even millennia. Those revelations are reshaping how I understand ...

Scientists have recovered a deep ice core from a remote part of East Antarctica as they search for answers to one of the most enduring mysteries regarding the Earth’s climate.

Scientists collect core samples from the polar ice sheets to learn about our planet’s climatic past. This core, extracted in Greenland in 2019, contains the Vedde ash layer, likely remnants of an ...

Physicists in Europe have quietly turned a classic holiday symbol into a cutting-edge experiment, 3D-printing a tiny Christmas tree out of ice instead of plastic or metal. The result is both a playful ...