Researchers led by Yuko Motizuki from the Astro-Glaciology Laboratory at the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan have developed a new laser-based sampling system for studying the composition of ice cores ...

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'Extremely exciting': the ice cores that could help save glaciers Hiroshi Hiyama AFP Dec 18, 2025 Updated Dec 19, 2025 0 GREG BAKER A researcher at Japan's Hokkaido University Institute of Low ...

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Have you heard about scientists who drill ice cores? Ice cores are samples taken from glaciers using special machines that go deep down into the glacier and take out solid tubes of ice and bring them ...

An ice core sample from the European Alps has been the first to be dated to the last Ice Age, providing vital historical environmental data stretching back across the last 12,000 years. The discovery ...

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Researchers led by Yuko Motizuki from the Astro-Glaciology Laboratory at the RIKEN Nishina Center, in Japan, have developed a new laser-based sampling system for studying the composition of ice cores ...

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 ...