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

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

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

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

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

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

Scientists have discovered ancient, river-carved landscapes beneath Antarctica's ice, revealing new insights into glacier ...

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

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

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

Climate change has transformed the Arctic faster than most places on the planet. Inuit know this better than anyone. But as Arctic ice researcher Dr. Shari Fox argues a colonialist approach to ...

A rapidly retreating glacier in the Russian Arctic has revealed an ancient whale graveyard.