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 ...

These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed ...

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

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

In a small, refrigerated room at a Brussels university, parka-wearing scientists chop up Antarctic ice cores tens of ...

The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and ...

The ancient ice, which could be some 1.5 million years old, was retrieved from depths of up to 2,800 metres and will be ...

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 ...

Evidence of algae growth and climate simulations reveal the Arctic had seasonal ice, not a permanent ice shelf, for much of the past 750,000 years. These insights challenge long-standing theories. For ...

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