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

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

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

The newest arrivals at a subzero lab in Cambridge are not just some blocks of ice — they are time machines. This month, ...

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

Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Distinguished University Professor, Geography (Atmospheric Sciences), Senior Research Scientist, The Ohio State University and Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University ...

The ice was extracted from the deep ocean in East Antarctica earlier this year and is thought to be around 1.2 million years ...

Scientists have recently received a groundbreaking ice core that could hold the secrets to understanding Earth’s past climate ...

New research suggests that ancient polar bear populations shrank as sea ice dwindled, adding weight to concerns about the predator's future as climate change melts the Arctic.

Like the inverse of a butterfly flapping its wings in China, ice cores extracted in Greenland show the rise and fall of ...

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

Our geographers have discovered the remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East ...