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The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...
These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed ...
For much of the planet’s recent geological history, ice ages came and went every 41,000 years. Then, during a period ...
A 12,000-year-old Alpine ice core reveals Europe once endured massive dust storms and sea salt surges—evidence of a radically ...
In a small, refrigerated room at a Brussels university, parka-wearing scientists chop up Antarctic ice cores tens of ...
The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and ...
Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat ...
A rapidly melting glacier on Wilczek Island in Russia has uncovered a rare whale graveyard, revealing insights into sea-level ...
The ancient ice, which could be some 1.5 million years old, was retrieved from depths of up to 2,800 metres and will be ...
Evidence of algae growth and climate simulations reveal the Arctic had seasonal ice, not a permanent ice shelf, for much of the past 750,000 years. These insights challenge long-standing theories. For ...
Like the inverse of a butterfly flapping its wings in China, ice cores extracted in Greenland show the rise and fall of ...
The ice was extracted from the deep ocean in East Antarctica earlier this year and is thought to be around 1.2 million years ...