The Express visited the lab where British Antarctic Survey scientists hope to make a major climate science breakthrough.

For much of the planet’s recent geological history, ice ages came and went every 41,000 years. Then, during a period ...

Scientists have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice core at Little Dome C in East Antarctica. Extracted during the ...

An ice core that may be older than 1.5 million years has arrived in the UK where scientists will melt it to unlock vital ...

Scientists drilled thousands of meters into the Antarctic ice sheet to retrieve the world's oldest ice sample. They hope it ...

“Antarctic ice cores are like Rosetta Stones,” said Jim White, Craver Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in an email.

What did scientists find deep in Antarctic ice? Clues from volcanic eruptions that may have cooled the planet 800 years ago.

In Antarctica, two giant rifts, known as Chasm 1 and Halloween Crack, split across the Brunt Ice Shelf. The implications of ...

A unique ice core which is believed to be more than 1.5 million years old is being investigated to carve out information about climate change. This transparent core, extracted from deep within ...

The ice core — drilled from a depth of 2,800 metres in the East Antarctic Peninsula — is expected to hold a climate record ...

The core from Dome C, high on East Antarctica’s plateau, contains snowfall from the last 740,000 years and is by far the oldest continuous climate record obtained from ice cores so far.