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The core reaches across a mysterious period when Earth’s ice-age cycles changed from roughly…

The core reaches across a mysterious period when Earth’s ice-age cycles changed from roughly...

Our Changing World: A precious piece of sediment and what it says about our future

A rare sediment core recovered from beneath Antarctica's ice is revealing how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet responded to past warm periods.

Scientists Solve the Mystery of Why Antarctica Froze Before the Arctic

Antarctica’s first ice sheet may have begun with a geological head start hidden deep beneath the continent. Millions of years before thick ice spread across the Northern Hemisphere...

Most ancient Arctic carbon entering the ocean gets buried

Forces deep inside Earth helped Antarctica freeze before the Arctic

Scientists may have solved the mystery of why Antarctica froze millions of years before the Arctic. Slow-moving waves deep inside Earth gradually lifted East Antarctica, building m...

Boreal forests shade permafrost so effectively that summer thaw stays about one metre shallower

Thick forest canopies keep northern permafrost cool, safeguarding vast carbon stores. This natural shade prevents soil thawing and the release of greenhouse gases. Researchers disc...

Antarctic Meltwater Is Making Glaciers Slide Faster Toward the Ocean

A new study uses boreholes drilled deep beneath Antarctic ice to investigate why the continent’s glaciers are accelerating. More than half a kilometer beneath an East Antarctic gla...

Scientists find a huge hidden ice reservoir beneath Utah’s mountains

Beneath the rocky slopes of Mount Timpanogos lies far more ice than anyone walking across the surface might suspect. Researchers used gravity measurements to map the buried glacier...

Ancient Arctic carbon is pouring into the sea, but the seabed captures most of it

Thawing Arctic permafrost is releasing ancient carbon into the ocean, raising fears that microbes could turn it into greenhouse gases and accelerate climate change. But sediment co...