An international team of scientists announced Thursday they've successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles (2.8 kilometers) to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice ...

research specialists have successfully extracted deep ice cores from Antarctica in an effort to explore Earth's climate history stretching over 1.2 million years. The project, which is funded by ...

Aircraft from the British Antarctic Survey and British Royal Air Force were used in the ice core extraction and needed for timely and cool transportation. Some ice core samples were kept in tents ...