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

East Antarctica’s tectonic plate probably broke off of the supercontinent about 80 million years ago, with today’s ice sheet forming 34 million years ago. Today, the researchers write, the flat ...

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

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 ...

Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat surfaces formed over 80 million years ago before Antarctica froze. These hidden ...

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

For over two decades, satellites have quietly documented a major crisis unfolding beneath our feet: Earth's continents are ...

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 ...

What conservationists study and document at Paint Rock Valley will inform and influence biodiversity strategies across the ...