Based at Concordia Station in Antarctica, the Ice Memory Sanctuary will preserve glacial ice cores for centuries to come.

As climate change continues to be a pressing global issue, scientists are racing against time to analyze Earth’s oldest ice cores. These ancient frozen archives hold invaluable data that could unlock ...

Frozen deep beneath Antarctica and Greenland lies something remarkable. Tiny bubbles of ancient air, locked away in ice for hundreds of thousands of years, hold secrets about our planet's past.

After years as a professional research assistant at INSTAAR’s stable isotope lab, Valerie Morris estimates she’s processed more than 10 kilometers of ice from around the world. “You’ve done more ice ...

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples ...

Imagine turning 25 million satellite photos into real-time ice maps—no magic wand required. Google’s AlphaEarth Foundations does this every day. It’s like Sherlock Holmes with a telescope, solving ...

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 ...

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of East Antarctica. The 6-million-year-old ice and the tiny air bubbles trapped ...