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

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 ...

Hidden landscapes under Antarctic ice may slow glacier flow. These ancient surfaces could change how we predict 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 schism in the ice revealed several square miles of the island's surface, which held a large number of whale bones. Some ...

A 12,000-year-old Alpine ice core reveals Europe once endured massive dust storms and sea salt surges—evidence of a radically ...

The ice was extracted from the deep ocean in East Antarctica earlier this year and is thought to be around 1.2 million years ...

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

Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise ...

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

Ancient ice reveals mysterious solar storm Date: January 26, 2022 Source: Lund University Summary: Through analysis of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team has found evidence ...