An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years.

Between the ice and the soil, there is an area containing sediment and microorganisms, viruses, bacteria, that can tell us a lot about how life developed in those faraway times. John Yang: ...

Deep beneath the icy expanse of Antarctica lies a 9,186-foot-long ice core, a time capsule from 1.2 million years ago, holding mysteries of our planet's past.

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Antarctica, uncovering a 1.2-million-year-old ice core. This ancient ice holds valuable data on past climate conditions, which could help us ...

Antarctic sea ice began to change rapidly in 2015 and 2016. Since then it has remained well below the long-term average.

Scientists in Antarctica successfully drilled thousands of feet beneath the surface and excavated an unprecedented ice core that reveals at least 1.2 million years of Earth's history.

An ice core drilled by a research team is displayed at Little Dome C field base in eastern Antarctica, during the cutting phase, Jan. 7, 2025.

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters) deep ...

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has achieved a historic milestone this week, by successfully drilling a 2800-metre-long ice core, consisting of ice from the ...

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Osterberg said ice core samples showed ice ages 1 million years ago occurred every 40,000 years. Then about 800,000 years ago, ice ages jumped to occur every 100,000 years.