Apr. 20, 2023 — The seven worst years for polar ice sheets melting and losing ice have occurred during the past decade, according to new research, with 2019 being the worst year on record. The ...

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

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

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

Ancient ice filled with viruses may reveal the future of Earth’s microbiome “If you put them end to end, ... This research was published on July 20 in the journal Microbiome.

Osterberg said ice core samples showed ice ages 1 million years ago occurred every 40,000 years. Then about 800,000 years ago, ice ages jumped to occur every 100,000 years.

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

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

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

Ancient Antarctic ice melt caused extreme sea level rise 129,000 years ago ... Our new research might be able to provide some insight into what effect a warmer world would have in Antarctica, ...

In Ancient Ice, Clues That Scientists Are Underestimating Future Sea Levels. The cold, hard facts. ... a remote ice-drilling and research facility on the northern Greenland ice sheet.