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

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 ...

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 ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers ...

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

For over two decades, satellites have quietly documented a major crisis unfolding beneath our feet: Earth's continents are drying out at unprecedented rates. Fueled by climate change, groundwater ...

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

The planet has endured massive freshwater losses over the past two decades due to the combined effects of climate change, ...

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

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