News

Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By ...
Fifty thousand years ago, North America's landscapes were alive with an astonishing array of enormous creatures. Massive woolly mammoths roamed vast icy plains, while dense forests echoed with the ...
In this video, we take you on a journey to the Pleistocene Epoch, a time when Earth looked vastly different from today.
Rising temperatures are causing glaciers to lose ice at a rate higher than the average rate over past centuries.
New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.
For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...
For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...
A remarkable discovery buried beneath the Olympic Peninsula’s landscape will be the focus of the next Rosmond Evening Talk ...
Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.
In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake ...
The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation to highlight the importance of ...
This data set provides spatial distributions of fast ice and glacial ice in eight fjords spanning the Southeast Greenland coast: Nansen, Kangerlusruaq, Ikertivaq, Skjoldungen, Tingmiarmiut, ...