Strong ocean tides could be driving the growth of huge fractures in Antarctica’s ice shelves, new research suggests.

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 ...

Scientists have discovered ancient, river-carved landscapes beneath Antarctica's ice, revealing new insights into glacier ...

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

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

A rapidly retreating glacier in the Russian Arctic has revealed an ancient whale graveyard.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...