The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...

For much of the planet’s recent geological history, ice ages came and went every 41,000 years. Then, during a period ...

Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat ...

A rapidly melting glacier on Wilczek Island in Russia has uncovered a rare whale graveyard, revealing insights into sea-level ...

Like the inverse of a butterfly flapping its wings in China, ice cores extracted in Greenland show the rise and fall of ...

The planet’s oldest ice was drilled from within the Antarctic ice sheet, and could provide new insights into the evolution of ...

The oldest known ice in Western Europe lay at the summit of the French Alps, with the Mont Blanc glacier acting as an archive ...

Scientists found 12,000-year-old glacier ice in the Alps, revealing new details about Europe’s climate history and human ...

Hidden landscapes under Antarctic ice may slow glacier flow. These ancient surfaces could change how we predict sea-level rise. Scientists have identified remnants of ancient landscapes in East Antarc ...

New findings from studying over two decades of satellite observations reveal that Earth's continents have experienced ...

Each summer at Bowdoin, around two hundred students receive fellowships from the College to conduct independent, ...

If you wake up every morning worrying you’ve landed in hell, you pretty much have. It’s hotter than Satan’s house cat.