Ancient ice cores expected to help scientists assess risks of abrupt climate change in future IMAGE: Atmospheric gases trapped in ancient ice recovered during the international North Greenland Eemian ...

To understand what has happened to the earth’s atmosphere–and, therefore, how our climate might change in the future–some ice-core scientists in the Arctic are training their eyes directly downward.

A new ice core successfully drilled from the Antarctica Peninsula last month (January) may shed new light on how the vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) has responded to climate change in the ...

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