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 ...

Antarctica, the frozen continent at the southernmost point of our planet, remains one of the most mysterious and unexplored places on Earth. Spanning over 14 million square kilometers, Antarctica is ...

Sediments in a lagoon near Darwin hold traces of changes to monsoonal rains over 150,000 years. Here’s what it means as Earth ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

As glaciers melt around the world, long-dormant volcanoes may be waking up beneath the ice. New research reveals that massive ...

How can climate change influence volcanic activity? This is what a recent study presented at the Goldschmidt Conference in ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

Research involving the University of Liverpool has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica. In ...

A trove of prehistoric Ice Age treasures are being exhibited alongside classic works of art to show why they deserve their ...

The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. In the northern ...

A cultural burn in Fort Yukon, Alaska in May 2024. The wildland fire community, along with governments, policy makers, and ...