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 ...

Like the inverse of a butterfly flapping its wings in China, ice cores extracted in Greenland show the rise and fall of ...

For much of the planet’s recent geological history, ice ages came and went every 41,000 years. Then, during a period ...

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.

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

Apr. 20, 2023 — The seven worst years for polar ice sheets melting and losing ice have occurred during the past decade, according to new research, with 2019 being the worst year on record. The ...

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 schism in the ice revealed several square miles of the island's surface, which held a large number of whale bones. Some ...

Environment Climate Change In Ancient Ice, Clues That Scientists Are Underestimating Future Sea Levels The cold, hard facts By John Mahoney Updated Jun 28, 2021 9:15 AM EDT ...

Scientists are hoping to find it. But even the scientists hunting for old ice aren't sure how long the very oldest ice might have stuck around, says John Higgins, a geochemist at Princeton University.