The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has achieved a historic milestone this week, by successfully drilling a 2800-metre-long ice core, consisting of ice from the ...

Scientists have returned to East Antarctica this month to locate ... consortium from 10 European countries whose aim is to drill an ice core to capture 1.5 million years of Earth’s climate ...

Scientists extracted deep ice cores from Antarctica as part of the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project, aiming to uncover Earth ...

Using the drill, the team obtained multiple ice core samples and a 0.48-meter rock ... Science and Engineering have participated in 10 Antarctic expeditions and all of China's Antarctic drilling ...

Inside the drilling tent at Skytrain Ice Rise, engineers and scientists separating the inner barrel of the drill from the outer barrel between drilling runs. Ice cores provide first documentation ...

Australian scientists have begun a new major ice core drilling project in Antarctica. They hope to search through more than a million years of climate history for clues about our planet's past and ...

This team of scientists are drilling deep into an ice sheet, 650 metres in fact, to extract a piece of Antarctic ice core. Their tent is pitched in the isolated, hostile and uninhabited icy ...