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 do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

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

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015 ...

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