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

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

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

A rapidly melting glacier on Wilczek Island in Russia has uncovered a rare whale graveyard, revealing insights into sea-level ...

A new study finds that Neanderthals likely ate decomposing meat crawling with maggots — and the chemical evidence in their ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers ...

A trove of ancient whale bones was recently discovered beneath a melting Arctic glacier. The centuries-old skeletal remains were found during an expedition on Wilczek Island, part of a Russian ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient human migration routes hidden beneath the sea, revealing how early humans moved between ...

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

A University of Kansas researcher has spent years studying "aquaterra"—his term for regions around the world once populated ...

For over two decades, satellites have quietly documented a major crisis unfolding beneath our feet: Earth's continents are ...