Far below the waves of the Baltic Sea, sonar has revealed a sprawling stone formation that turns out to be one of the oldest ...

Understanding past sea level change is necessary for predicting future sea level rise. The main contributors to sea level variability are ice sheet change, ocean water temperature change (e.g., ...

The culprit behind Greenland's sinking seas is not only climate change, but also a dramatic phenomenon that happens ...

A recent study shows that there is a lot more sediment trapped beneath Greenland’s ice sheet than we realized, which could ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even though it matters just as much. A new study of East Antarctica reaches back ...

Scientists have discovered there is more to Antarctica than meets the eye. A new map of the landscape beneath the frozen ...

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a ...

Antarctica's subglacial bedrock was previously one of the least-mapped planetary surfaces in our solar system.

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

Scientists believe the map could shed light on how Antarctica's vast ice sheet will respond to climate change.

The geological evidence present so far suggests that the continent before 34 million years was ice-free and that the newly ...