Jan 9, 2025 · An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles (2.8 kilometers) to Antarctic bedrock …

Aug 15, 2017 · Scientists announced today that a core drilled in Antarctica has yielded 2.7-million-year-old ice, an astonishing find 1.7 million years older than the previous record-holder.

Jan 11, 2025 · An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample...

Jan 10, 2025 · Scientists have drilled 1.7 miles deep into Antarctica, pulling up an ice core sample that dates back at least 1.2 million years. They expect the sample to offer new insights into the...

Jan 9, 2025 · An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 kilometers) ice core in Antarctica, hitting the frozen continent’s bedrock.

Jan 19, 2025 · Scientists in the Antarctic have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice—drilling down 1.7 miles for ice samples a million years old.

Jan 14, 2025 · A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, stretching back more than a million years. Laid horizontally, the …

Aug 18, 2017 · Back in 2010, a group of scientists drilling in Antarctica pulled up a one-million-year-old chunk of ice. At the time, it was the oldest ice core ever discovered. But as Paul …

Jan 12, 2025 · Scientists have drilled nearly two miles into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting a core sample estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old.

The Australian Antarctic Division is gearing up to lead one of the most ambitious and challenging scientific projects yet undertaken in Antarctica – the quest to drill an ice core containing a …