Scientists at DRI’s Ice Core Lab study ancient ice to uncover thousands of years of Earth’s history. Tiny particles trapped ...

About a century ago, the Anaconda Copper Mine complex near Butte, Montana, was emitting vast amounts of air pollution into ...

Ice core analysis reveals that early 20th-century copper production in Montana exposed millions of North Americans to high ...

A huge mine complex near Butte, Montana, was emitting "vast" amounts of air pollution into the atmosphere around 100 years ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like the inverse of the mythical butterfly flapping its wings in China, an ice core extracted from Greenland can reveal the rise ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — New analyses of ancient ice from Antarctica and the air contained inside it are extending the history of Earth’s climate records and expanding researchers’ understanding of how the ...

(CNN) — 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. The sample extended so ...

A mysterious spike of platinum buried deep in Greenland’s ice has long fueled theories of a catastrophic comet or asteroid strike 12,800 years ago—possibly triggering a sudden return to icy conditions ...

High in the mountains of northwestern Tibet, an ancient ice cap has preserved something scientists are only beginning to understand. New research suggests that ice buried within it may be more than ...

After years as a professional research assistant at INSTAAR’s stable isotope lab, Valerie Morris estimates she’s processed more than 10 kilometers of ice from around the world. “You’ve done more ice ...