BUFFALO, N.Y. — Much like the ice he helped preserve for decades, Chester “Chet” Langway’s legacy at the University at Buffalo endures. Faculty here are still studying the ancient sediments that ...

As climate change continues to be a pressing global issue, scientists are racing against time to analyze Earth’s oldest ice cores. These ancient frozen archives hold invaluable data that could unlock ...

Fresh evidence from sediment cores, satellite records, and deep-ocean sensors is converging on a troubling finding: meltwater pouring off the Antarctic ice sheet may be reorganizing the planet’s ocean ...

Glaciers hold layers of history preserved in ice, offering unique insights into Earth's past that can also help us interpret the future. Trapped amidst the frozen water are microscopic deposits of ...

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 ...

Left: Antarctic ice core and the bubbles contained in it. Right: Vacuum-ultraviolet light source and metastable krypton atom beam device. A team led by Prof. Zheng-Tian Lu and Prof. Wei Jiang from the ...

This story was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center. This story was made possible through the assistance of the U.S. National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs. Inside a tent ...