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

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

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

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

These insights will help scientists better understand the palaeoecology of Eurasias northernmost areas and how past climate ...

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 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 ...

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.

A new study suggests that glaciers on Mars are primarily composed of pure water ice, potentially serving as a valuable resource for future explorers.

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.