Landscapes left behind by ancient ­rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers have suggested. In a study published in Nature Geoscience, a team used radio ...

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

Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat surfaces formed over 80 million years ago before Antarctica froze. These hidden ...

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

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

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

An ice core that may be older than 1.5 million years has arrived in the UK where scientists will melt it to unlock vital ...

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

A vast ancient landscape, untouched for more than 34 million years, has been discovered buried beneath more than a mile of ice in East Antarctica. The hidden terrain lies in a remote region known ...

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

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