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

BBC Studios Natural History Unit is producing Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age for Apple TV+, with Tom Hiddleston set to narrate.

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 ...

Hidden landscapes under Antarctic ice may slow glacier flow. These ancient surfaces could change how we predict sea-level ...

Scientists have been able to recreate the extreme conditions found on icy moons in deep space—and revealed the unstable ...

A 12,000-year-old Alpine ice core reveals Europe once endured massive dust storms and sea salt surges—evidence of a radically ...

The ice was extracted from the deep ocean in East Antarctica earlier this year and is thought to be around 1.2 million years ...

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 ...

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

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

Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise ...