ice cores
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Traces Of Giant, 2,700-Year-Old Solar Storm Detected In Greenland Ice
Evidence of an unusually strong solar storm that hit Earth in 660 BCE has been detected in Greenland ice cores—a finding which shows we still have lots to learn about these disruptive events.
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Saving The Last Of The World’s Glaciers By Sending Them To Antarctica
Glaciology is in the middle of a slow-moving crisis. As the climate warms, glaciers are shrinking and then disappearing. So scientists have come up with a plan to put ice cores from melting glaciers in the most permanent cold storage possible on Earth — in Antarctica.