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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated image released on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026 by the Ice Memory Foundation, shows the Concordia Station, where the Ice ...

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 ...

"An ice core is an extremely valuable sample and unique," said Yaginuma. "From that single ice core, we perform a variety of analyses, both chemical and physical." The team hopes to publish its first ...

A University of Minnesota researcher is back home after a months-long journey to the end of the earth, collecting ice samples that are likely millions of years old.

Scientists reached Antarctic bedrock after drilling 1.7 miles through more than a million years of ice deposits on the white continent. “The objectives of this campaign present unprecedented ...

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 ...

ROME — 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 generations to ...

This undated image released on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026 by the Ice Memory Foundation, shows the Concordia Station, where the Ice Memory Sanctuary is being built in Antarctica for ice cores from the ...