A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial ...

An international research team has achieved a scientific milestone by recovering a 228-meter-long sediment ...

Analyses will help to reveal how far the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated in the past — and what it might do in the future.

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being relatively warm and stable to cold and chaotic, as continental ice sheets ...

Studying ancient microbes like this one is risky research, but it can also reveal novel biological mechanisms that inspire ...

MASON, Tenn. — Who can forget the loud outcry in Mason, Tennessee, when the city was considering a plan to allow Immigration ...

Sediment collected from deep beneath the Antarctic confirms what scientists feared.

SCIENTISTS have discovered an ancient bacterial strain resistant to multiple types of antibiotics – which could worsen the ...

Whether it’s the ocean’s deepest hydrothermal vents or tall mountain peaks, bacteria is likely surviving and thriving. Ice caves can host a wide variety of microorganisms and offer biologists a bevy ...

Bacterial strains thriving in icy environments could worsen the global antibiotic resistance crisis – or play a role in ...

A deep Antarctic drill recovers sediments dating back 23 million years, offering rare insight into how ice sheets respond to global warming.

The bacteria, discovered by scientists deep inside a cave set into a Romanian mountain range, has 100 genes that would grant ...