On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples from glaciers rescued worldwide are now beginning to be stored there for ...

On a high, wind-scoured plateau of Antarctica, scientists have carved a small frozen vault into the ice and begun filling it with cylinders of ancient snow. Each core is a time capsule, holding ...

The storing of the very first heritage cores in Antarctica marks a pivotal moment for the Ice Memory project launched in 2015 by CNRS, IRD, the University of Grenoble-Alpes (France), CNR, Ca' Foscari ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ice cave and cores storage at the Concordia Station in Antarctica. (© Gaetano MaccrÌ-PNRA-IPEV) Designed to protect ice cores from ...

Ice from France's iconic Mont Blanc and a slice of Switzerland's Grand Combin glacier have become the first ever samples to be stashed away in a unique Antarctic archive, known as the Ice Memory ...

ROME (AP) — Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth’s atmosphere in a frozen vault for future ...