If you could look back in time, what would you search out? Would you head back to Ancient Egypt, visit the dinosaurs, step into Medieval times, or even the Stone Age? Think of all the unsolved ...

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 ...

An international team of scientists have drilled nearly two miles down into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting an ice core sample that's estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old, they announced ...

The five tents sitting on the white expanse of the Clark Glacier look more like a winter camping site than a scientific field camp. Skis stick out of the snow. A pot on the propane stove holds melted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ice core segment An ice core sample from the European Alps has been the first to be dated to the last Ice Age, providing vital ...

Glaciers can reveal vast archives of information about Earth's environmental past, but deciphering the origins of the matter ...

A minus-40-degree vault concealed in a federal government warehouse west of Denver holds the climate science equivalent of gold: the United States’ growing collection of ice from around a warming ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Ice core measurements are scientists’ best tool for analyzing the atmospheric changes that occurred ...

At the National Ice Core Facility in Lakewood, Colorado, a government scientist holds up a sample of ice from Antarctica marked by ash, likely from an ancient volcanic eruption. (Amanda ...

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 ...