The drilling was completed earlier this month at a location called Little Dome C near the Concordia Research Station in southeastern Antarctica. An international team of scientists representing 10 ...

Researchers from Europe have spent more than 200 days braving sub-zero temperatures at a drilling site near Antarctica's Concordia Research Station. This month, they finally saw the fruit of their ...

Analysis of the ice should provide insight into how Ice Age cycles have changed, and may help in understanding how atmospheric carbon changed climate, scientists say ...

An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice they say is at ...

near Concordia Research Station. “It was a great a moment for us when we reached the bedrock,” Scoto said. Isotope analysis gave the ice’s age as at least 1.2 million years old, he said.