East Antarctica’s tectonic plate probably broke off of the supercontinent about 80 million years ago, with today’s ice sheet forming 34 million years ago. Today, the researchers write, the flat ...

The planet’s oldest ice was drilled from within the Antarctic ice sheet, and could provide new insights into the evolution of ...

Ancient ice filled with viruses may reveal the future of Earth’s microbiome “If you put them end to end, ... This research was published on July 20 in the journal Microbiome.

Osterberg said ice core samples showed ice ages 1 million years ago occurred every 40,000 years. Then about 800,000 years ago, ice ages jumped to occur every 100,000 years.

The ice was extracted from the deep ocean in East Antarctica earlier this year and is thought to be around 1.2 million years ...

A new study published this week has surprised the research team, who discovered that the valleys took just hundreds of years to form as they transported vast amounts of meltwater away from under ...

An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years.

Ancient Antarctic ice melt caused extreme sea level rise 129,000 years ago ... Our new research might be able to provide some insight into what effect a warmer world would have in Antarctica, ...

Ancient ice reveals mysterious solar storm Date: January 26, 2022 Source: Lund University Summary: Through analysis of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team has found evidence ...

Known as the British-Irish ice sheet, the frozen mass began its relentless march about 33,000 years ago. Around 10,000 years later, the land was covered in ice half a mile thick.

Ice is usually ephemeral; it doesn't last that long before melting. But some ice on our planet has stayed frozen for millions of years, according to scientists on a quest to find the oldest ice.