Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that ...

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

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A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

If you were to wander along the parts of Antarctica that are ice-free, you might be surprised to see something soft and ...

This is not good news for the future of our planet.

In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...