Southern Florida could be underwater within centuries. A rare geological record from beneath the Ross Ice Shelf confirms the ...

Strange structures found lurking beneath Antarctic ice ...

Ancient Antarctic ice sheet cycles affected subtropical ocean productivity by altering nutrient circulation. The 40,000-year obliquity cycle played an unexpectedly strong role, revealing deep global ...

Cycles in the growth and decay of Antarctica's ice sheets once shaped marine biological productivity thousands of miles away ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The geological material is discussed, documented and given a preliminary age assessment while still in the field. (CREDIT: Ana ...

Warmer oceans are quietly eroding Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from below, and scientists warn the process may be far less gradual than most people assume. This clip from a full interview with ...

A new study in Nature Geoscience reveals that changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) closely tracked marine algae growth in the Southern Ocean over previous glacial cycles, but not in the way ...

A new Stanford University study has helped solve a mystery about dramatic swings in sea ice extent around Antarctica.

Ice cores are some of our best natural 'archives' of Earth's long-term climate. They don't necessarily contain a complete, ...

Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge on what happens after the period of melting. Researchers dig into this “after” period and see how it relates to ...