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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and could help predictions of future loss from the ice sheet.

What Greenland’s Ancient Past Reveals About Its Fragile Future. The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know? Inside a ...