As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large glaciers began to melt. The sea levels rose quickly—about 1 centimeter per ...

At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

Drilling through ancient glaciers in the Allan Hills region of southeastern Antarctica, researchers from the Center for ...

Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula lost nearly half its size astonishingly rapidly. Scientists have now discovered ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ...

Arctic sea ice has declined by more than 42% since 1979, when regular satellite monitoring began. As the ice grows thinner ...

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is. Some 4 billion ...

As noted in the study, published in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, this strategic choice allowed ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on Earth in East Antarctica, dating back six million years.