An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

However, the significance of interglacial time, precisely 416,000 years ago, lies in the duration, magnitude, and effects of the natural warming that caused the ice sheet to melt. The warm climates ...

How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking ...

Seismic technology has revealed secrets of the Earth from a million years ago. During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), the Earth adopted a 100,000-year glacial-interglacial cycle compared to the ...

“We have a strong indication that the uppermost 2,480 meters contain a climate record that goes back to 1.2 million years in a high-resolution record where up to 13,000 years are compressed into one ...

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

Scientists from the University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey have used ice core records to draw new conclusions ...