For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Aline of evidence is providing further corroboration of the antiquity of fossilized footprints discovered at White Sands ...

In the north of the country, a village that has been isolated from the outside world for centuries is suffering from the ...

Though its landscape is quite different, this amazing but unsung Washington state park is arguably just as breathtaking as the famous Mount Rainier.

Mud never lies,” added University of Arizona archaeologist Vance Holliday, whose new work has turned a century of hypothesis ...

Spying on glacial ice The signal showing Himalayan ice loss linked to rising temperatures would not be so clear if it weren’t for the U.S. spy satellites—KH-9 Hexagon military satellites from ...

Glaciers are flowing rivers of ice, formed when snowfall compresses into a solid sheet. Over the span of hundreds of years, ...

What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study ...

Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake ...

The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation to highlight the importance of ...