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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

The ice sample contains greenhouse gas bubbles that hold clues to climate and atmospheric history dating back more than 800,000 years. The ice core shows a continuous record of the Earth’s ...

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

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.

Glaciers in the northwestern Tibetan Plateau contain thousands of years of history, including carbon isotopes that are used to determine how old the ice is and ancient microbes that are frozen in ...

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.