Science news articles about 'greenland ice core'

... microscopes -- were drilled as part of the North Greenland Ice Core Project led by project leader ... no curves ahead." Each yearly record of ice can reveal past temperatures and precipitation levels, ...

... Science Foundation. Detailed measurements from a Greenland ice core showed pollutants from burning coal-- ... averaged pollution records taken from the Greenland ice core dating from 1772-2003 produced ...

... contingent. While three previous Greenland ice cores drilled in the past 20 years ... representing the warm Eemian and the period of transition to the ice age were compressed and folded, making them ...

Violent swings in weather patterns occurred after Earth's climate crossed "tipping points" thousands of years ago, according to a new study of Greenland ice-core data.

Tiny bubbles inside ice core samples contain samples of the atmosphere trapped inside when the ice was first formed.

Paleoclimate researcher studies Greenland ice cores to see how Earth's climate has changed.

... the first time two isotopes of nitrogen found in nitrates in a Greenland ice core. The core, 100 meters long and taken at the peak of the Greenland ice cap in June 2006, contains a record ...