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 ...

During the last Ice Age,roughly between 26,000 and 19,000 years ago, the Earth was dramatically different from today. Vast ...

A remarkable discovery buried beneath the Olympic Peninsula’s landscape will be the focus of the next Rosmond Evening Talk ...

Spying on glacial ice The signal showing Himalayan ice loss linked to rising temperatures would not be so clear if it weren’t for the U.S. spy satellites—KH-9 Hexagon military satellites from ...

Glaciers are flowing rivers of ice, formed when snowfall compresses into a solid sheet. Over the span of hundreds of years, ...

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, ...

WWII Aircraft Challenges Evolutionary Timelines** A fascinating discovery has surfaced from the Arctic, reigniting an age-old debate surrounding evolution a ...

In the past century, scientists have observed more rockfalls and avalanches in the Alps, a looming threat to nearby villages.