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

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

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 ...

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

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

Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat surfaces formed over 80 million years ago before Antarctica froze. These hidden ...

New findings from studying over two decades of satellite observations reveal that Earth's continents have experienced ...

For over two decades, satellites have quietly documented a major crisis unfolding beneath our feet: Earth's continents are ...

The planet has endured massive freshwater losses over the past two decades due to the combined effects of climate change, overconsumption and drought, a new study has found. Arid land areas are ...

New findings from studying over two decades of satellite observations reveal that the Earth’s continents have experienced ...