The Ice Memory Sanctuary was built to keep samples from glaciers frozen, preserving thousands of years of Earth's climate ...

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 ...

Marissa Grunes is a freelance science writer and Lecturer in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics and Society at CU Boulder. Every semester, she takes first-year Engineering students on a tour ...

An ice core sample from the European Alps has been the first to be dated to the last Ice Age, providing vital historical environmental data stretching back across the last 12,000 years. The discovery ...

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 ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...

Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to preserve pieces of these glaciers before rising temperatures erase them.

Humans have been recording the weather for thousands of years. Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 ...