Scientists Think Ancient ‘Sun Stones’ May Have Been Volcanic Sacrifices
Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately ...
NASA Images Reveal Melting Antarctic Ice Shelf: 'Blue Puddles'
"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.
European scientists spent 4 year drilling in remote site in Antarctica to get to Earth's oldest ice
An international team of researchers announced that they have successfully drilled a 2.8-kilometer-long ice core from ...
Million-year-old ice drilling for crucial climate data
Australian scientists have started drilling in Antarctica for million-year-old ice as they try to shed light on ...
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Scientists Drill Ice Core–2 Miles Down–Extracting 1.2 Million Years of Climate Record On Earth
Scientists in the Antarctic have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice—drilling down 1.7 miles for ice samples a million years old.
The 18 things (not necessarily big) that made Australia what it is today
From a giant ram to Ned Kelly’s armour, these key treasures perfectly capture our pop culture, history and achievements as a ...
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Could These Ancient Artifacts Have Been Created to End a Volcanic Winter?
Ice core analysis from Greenland reveals volcanic upheaval that coincides with the creation of mysterious "sunstones" in ...
How is Antarctica melting, exactly? Crucial details are beginning to come into focus
The Antarctic ice sheet is nearly twice the area of Australia and holds enough freshwater to raise global sea levels by 58 ...
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A Volcano Wiped Out Sunlight 5,000 Years Ago, Triggering Strange Sacrifices
Teaming up with climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute, Iversen and his colleagues found that ice cores in both ...
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Antarctic scientists extract world’s oldest ice
Antarctic scientists have extracted what is believed to be the world's oldest ice. The international team successfully ...
Scientists Used a 1.7-Mile-Long ‘Time Machine’ to See Into Earth’s Climate Past
“We have a strong indication that the uppermost 2,480 meters contain a climate record that goes back to 1.2 million years in ...
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Ice core 2-miles-deep may expose the threat that almost wiped out our ancestors
Scientists drilled a 2-mile-deep ice core in Antarctica, allowing them to peer back in time at Earth's climate over 1.2 ...