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

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 ...

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

A unique ice core which is believed to be more than 1.5 million years old is being investigated to carve out information ...

Antarctica's oldest ice has been brought to the UK for research.Scientists collected this ice from depths of up to 2,800 ...

Hidden landscapes under Antarctic ice may slow glacier flow. These ancient surfaces could change how we predict sea-level ...

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

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

UMBERTO BACCHIIn a small, refrigerated room at a Brussels university, parka-wearing scientists chop up Antarctic ice cores ...

Lonnie Thompson, professor and research scientist at the Ohio State University, holds an ice core sample from a glacier in the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center in Columbus on Jan. 15, 2021.

An epic glacial lake flood spanning Canada’s prairies may have been swift enough to trigger the ice age roughly 12,000 years ago, shows research lead by the University of Alberta.

Groundwater records from the last ice age indicate that aquifers in the U.S. Southwest are more sensitive to global warming than aquifers in the Pacific Northwest.