Lonnie Thompson has made more than 50 science expeditions to some 15 countries over the last 30-odd years. He solidified his reputation earlier this decade...
Douglas Wiens and colleagues combined seismological and GPS data to reveal that an ice stream in West Antarctica releases two bursts of seismic waves every...
Ice cores contain a wealth of information about past climate and environmental conditions, with clues in the form of trapped bubbles of gas and varying...
Ellen Mosley-Thompson helped pioneer ice core research beginning in the 1970s, when she and her colleague, Lonnie Thompson, discovered that dust particles could tell scientists...
The Wilkins Ice Shelf is experiencing further disintegration that is threatening the collapse of the ice bridge connecting the shelf to Charcot Island. It is...
Ted Scambos is the lead scientist at Boulder, Colo.-based National Snow and Ice Data Center, which supports research into the frozen places of the world....
As the tropics go, so goes West Antarctica. That’s the conclusion from scientists who analyzed ice cores recovered by the U.S. component of the International...