Named 'Ice Memory Sanctuary,' the first-of-its-kind library maintains a record of ice cores from across the world.

Scientists on Wednesday sealed ancient chunks of glacial ice in a first-of-its-kind sanctuary in Antarctica in the hope of ...

Scientists on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth's ...

With its temperature of -50°C, the archive sanctuary built below the surface at Concordia will allow endangered ice cores extracted from the Andes, Svalbard, the Alps, the Caucasus, and the Pamir ...

Ice cores, compacted for centuries or even millennia, can shed precious light on Earth's ancient climate when studied by ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...

Scientists have recovered a deep ice core from a remote part of East Antarctica as they search for answers to one of the most ...

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 ...

A researcher at Japan's Hokkaido University Institute of Low Temperature Science cuts a slice from an ice core sample taken from a glacier in the Pamir mountain range ...