Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat ...

The schism in the ice revealed several square miles of the island's surface, which held a large number of whale bones. Some ...

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

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

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

A trove of ancient whale bones was recently discovered beneath a melting Arctic glacier. The centuries-old skeletal remains were found during an expedition on Wilczek Island, part of a Russian ...

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

Hidden landscapes under Antarctic ice may slow glacier flow. These ancient surfaces could change how we predict sea-level rise. Scientists have identified remnants of ancient landscapes in East Antarc ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient human migration routes hidden beneath the sea, revealing how early humans moved between ...

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

A University of Kansas researcher has spent years studying "aquaterra"—his term for regions around the world once populated ...

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