The first ice core drilling campaign of Beyond Epica-Oldest Ice has been successfully completed at the remote Little Dome C site in Antarctica – one of the most extreme places on Earth.

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 ...

However, inside the drill tent we successfully drilled and eventually retrieved a core, at a depth of 651 metres, containing pebbles from the bottom of the ice sheet. There were other exciting ...

Drilling to retrieve a million-year-old ice core containing critical intel about the planet's climate has begun in earnest at a remote Antarctic outpost.

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 ...