Deep inside the Greenland ice sheet are giant swirling plume-like structures. These have puzzled scientists for over a decade, but UiB researchers now believe they have cracked the mystery by applying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The biggest ice shelf in Antarctica is slipping — a first-of-its-kind discovery related to our warming world. The shelf can move ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

The recent deep freeze across much of the U.S. has created one of the best opportunities in decades to sail ice boats across frozen bays and rivers — including the Chesapeake Bay.

Watch as researchers drop a camera into a deep borehole within West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, one of the most volatile ...

An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample extended so deep that ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Ancient sediment pulled from nearly a mile below the Greenland ice sheet — and later stored for roughly two decades at the University at Buffalo, whose researchers are still studying ...

The Doomsday Glacier is at the center of a striking new discovery hidden deep under Antarctica’s frozen edge. For the first time, scientists have found hundreds of special earthquakes at some of the ...

The Australian Antarctic Division’s Million Year Ice Core Project (MYIC) is seeking to solve the dilemma as to why Earth’s ice age cycles shifted from every 41,000 years to every 100,000 years about a ...