An ancient glacier high in the French Alps has revealed the oldest known ice in Western Europe—dating back over 12,000 years to the last Ice Age. This frozen archive, meticulously analyzed by ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The planet’s oldest ice was drilled from within the Antarctic ice sheet, and could provide new insights into the evolution of ...

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 ...

By linking the genomes of ancient viral communities to specific climate conditions preserved in glacier ice, our newly published research offers insights into how these viruses have adapted to ...