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 ...

Melting polar ice caps may have pushed some of the first ancient humans out of Europe. New research suggests that meltwater shut down an important current bringing heat to the continent, with our ...

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 ...

Image: Oregon State University Researchers have uncovered the oldest intact ice core sample dating back 2m years, providing invaluable data on ancient climate change.

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 ...

Large flat surfaces carved by ancient rivers deep beneath East Antarctica are influencing how ice flows across the continent ...

This research was published on July 20 in the journal Microbiome. Apart from allowing scientists to reconstruct history and the environmental conditions these viruses encountered, the work also ...

SETI Institute. "Ancient ice may still exist in distant space objects, researchers find." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 14 March 2024. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 03 / 240314122126.htm>.

When the researchers had three ice samples, the temperature in Svalbard shot up to -3C, turning part of the route back to their base at the Ny-Alesund research station into a treacherous torrent ...

Groundwater records from the last ice age indicate that aquifers in the U.S. Southwest are more sensitive to global warming than aquifers in the Pacific Northwest.

The Ice Memory team hope to have a wide range of samples ready to be stored in Antarctica by 2020, in a bespoke vault built near the French-Italian research station Concordia.