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

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

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

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

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

Scientists have recently received a groundbreaking ice core that could hold the secrets to understanding Earth’s past climate ...

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

The schism in the ice revealed several square miles of the island's surface, which held a large number of whale bones. Some ...

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

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

A trove of ancient whale bones was recently discovered beneath a melting Arctic glacier. The centuries-old skeletal remains were found during an expedition on Wilczek Island, part of a Russian ...

When ice gets trapped on land as giant ice sheets, it causes the sea level to change, but it doesn’t change by the same amount all around the planet.