He has made numerous trips to both the North Pole and South Pole to retrieve ice cores—cylinders of ice that are drilled from the depths of glaciers and ice sheets. When studied, ice cores can ...

Scientists get ice core samples of glaciers to study these gases before the ice melts. See the Let’s Explore the Cores article in this issue to learn more about ice cores and how they give us ...

the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general called for all ICE detainees to be immediately removed from the facility due to “critical staffing shortages.” Five months later ...

The Ice Core Excavator (ICE) is an undergraduate-student designed payload for a commercial quadcopter drone. ICE is a tool for climate scientists studying snow algae, black carbon, and other surface ...

by successfully drilling a 2800-metre-long ice core, consisting of ice from the Antarctic ice sheet which is more than 1.2 million years old. Funded by the European Commission and coordinated by ...

Olaf Eisen, a co-author of the study from the Alfred Wegener Institute, notes that this discovery also helps explain why ice cores, taken from deep within the ice sheet, contain fractures called ...