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Securing Pamir Ice Memory: Two Deep Cores Recovered at Kon Chukurbashi

An international team under the Swiss Polar Institute's PAMIR Flagship Initiative has completed a five-week, high-altitude drilling campaign on the Kon Chukurbashi Ice Cap in Tajikistan's Pamir…

Researcher holding a long ice core inside a dome field lab, amid drilling equipment.

What do ice cores tells us about climate change?

BBC World Service’s The Climate Question—stories on why we find it so hard to save our own planet, and how we might change that, spotlights how ice cores from Antarctica to Peru’s Quelccaya…

Sunrise reflects golden light on a rocky mountain slope across a still lake.

From Research to Action — Making the Case for Peru’s Quelccaya National Park

Lonnie Thompson, Senior Research Scientist at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and Distinguished University Professor of Earth Sciences at The Ohio State University, recently spoke with…

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Byrd Center Researchers Lead Field Expedition to Study Peru’s Quelccaya Ice Cap

Researchers led by The Ohio State University's Earth Sciences Professor Lonnie Thompson, a Senior Research Scientist at the Byrd Center's Ice Core Paleoclimatology research group and a…

Map displaying the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) movement.

Ancient Pacific Sediments Reveal Shifting Tropical Rain Belt Over 30,000 Years

A recent study published in Nature Communications, by Danielle E. Schimmenti in the Department geology and geophysics at Texas A&M University, along with Professor Franco Marcantonio, Dr…

A map showing major rivers and glaciers in Asia, including locations of ice core sites like Guliya, Puruogangri, and Dasuopu. Arrows indicate the movement patterns of the Westerlies and the Indian Monsoon.

Ice Core Study Tracks Lead Pollution Across Asia from Ancient to Modern Times

A new study published in Scientific Data analyzed lead from the third pole ice core samples from the Puruogangri ice cap in central Tibet and the Dasuopu glacier in the central Himalayas to shed…

A wide valley with alpine villages in the middle surrounded by steep forested slopes and high mountain peaks with glaciers.

Glacier Collapse in Swiss Alps Highlights Dangers of Climate-Driven Instability

On May 28, 2025, a catastrophic landslide obliterated approximately 90% of the Swiss Alpine village of Blatten in the Lötschental valley. The disaster was triggered by the collapse of the Birch…

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Ohio State Researchers Help Advance Measurement of Nanoparticles and Microparticles Using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry Technology

A team of scientists, including several affiliated with The Ohio State University, has made significant progress in understanding how to more accurately measure nanoparticles and microparticles…

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Glaciological and Geophysical Perspectives on Tropical Ice from a Scientific Survey of Mt. Huascarán

A new study published by Cambridge University Press 's Journal of Glaciology presents critical findings from a 2019 expedition to Nevado Huascarán, Peru's highest mountain and home to…