Q&A: An ice core library in Antarctica may save humanity's climate memory

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples ...

Ice core 'vault' preserving climate history opens in Antarctica

The Ice Memory Foundation on Wednesday opened the world’s first sanctuary for mountain ice cores in Antarctica, aiming to ...

Scientists are hiding data in an ice vault at the end of the Earth

Based at Concordia Station in Antarctica, the Ice Memory Sanctuary will preserve glacial ice cores for centuries to come.

World-first ice archive to guard secrets of melting glaciers

Scientists on Wednesday sealed ancient chunks of glacial ice in a first-of-its-kind sanctuary in Antarctica in the hope of ...

European scientists opened the world's first Ice-core vault in Antarctica

European scientists opened the Ice Memory Sanctuary in Antarctica, preserving glacier ice cores to study past climate, track ...
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Scientists drill nearly 2 miles down to pull 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctic

People walk through an ice core storage cave at Little Dome C field base on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in in eastern Antarctica. (PNRA/IPEV Beyond Epica via AP) (AP) — An international team of scientists ...
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'Extremely exciting': the ice cores that could help save glaciers

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...