The fastest way into the gaps between gigantic blocks of a broken-up glacier is by lowering instruments from above, through ...

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On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples from glaciers rescued worldwide are now beginning to be stored there for ...

ROME (AP) — Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth’s atmosphere in a frozen vault for future ...

Emeritus Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ice cave and cores storage at the Concordia Station in Antarctica. (© Gaetano MaccrÌ-PNRA-IPEV) Designed to protect ice cores from ...

Bad weather has postponed attempts to set up camp on the Thwaites Glacier. So researchers got onto the sea ice and met a local. By Raymond Zhong Reporting from a patch of sea ice in the Amundsen Sea ...

Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, when temperatures were close to what we're predicted to reach by the end of ...

As climate change continues to alter the planet, one of the earliest casualties will be glaciers spread across the world. However, the Pamir mountains in Central Asia have long resisted the trend of ...