An ice core sample from the European Alps has been the first to be dated to the last Ice Age, providing vital historical ...

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

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

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

The oldest known ice in Western Europe lay at the summit of the French Alps, with the Mont Blanc glacier acting as an archive for climate data.

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

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

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers ...

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

An ice core that may be older than 1.5 million years has arrived in the UK where scientists will melt it to unlock vital ...

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