As a paleoclimatologist, Balascio studies how Earth’s climate system has changed across millennia, primarily through ...
The 748-foot-long sediment core contains a record of roughly the past 23 million years, including periods when the planet's surface temperature was hotter than it is today ...
An international research team has recovered the longest sediment core ever drilled from beneath an ice sheet. The core ...
A team of scientists, engineers, and ship's crew on the research vessel Neil Armstrong operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) recently collected a 38-foot-long cylindrical ...
Under bone-chilling conditions, an international team of scientists has unlocked the secrets to better understand a rapidly-warming planet.
Marine scientist Matthew Costa is used to digging into research—literally. Over the course of his PhD program at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Costa frequently muddied his hands ...
A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every ...
They specifically looked at fossil pollen data sourced from 386 sediment cores records taken from lakes across North America. Sediment cores are samples taken from the bottom of a lake that preserve ...
A team of scientists have recently returned from a research trip to Antarctica where they were collecting penguin poo 'guano' from lake sediment ...
In 2012, an 85-year-old scientist and his son-in-law pulled a cylinder of muck from a faraway island. They carried it home like a newborn baby, froze it, and mailed it to a researcher across the ...