We know the Earth is old, but getting direct evidence of the deep past is hard, that's why the latest discovery out of ...

In a groundbreaking find, scientists have unearthed the oldest recorded air, trapped within Antarctic ice for an astonishing ...

Temperature records from measurements of oxygen isotopes in the ice reveal that this area experienced a gradual, long-term ...

Ms Shackleton and her colleagues discovered the ice between 2019 and 2023 in East Antarctica's remote region. The Allan Hills ...

The extracted ice block is six million years old, towards the end of the Miocene epoch, and can help to understand the planet ...

Antarctica's ice cores are like frozen diaries of Earth's past, preserving ancient air and climate clues. Most continuous ...

Adventure travel has long captured imaginations, but cruising to destinations like Patagonia, the Galápagos, and the Amazon ...

Safford, his team and this writer are in the Inyo National Forest in the Southern Sierra Nevada mountains, more than 11,000 ...

Scientists have unearthed Australia's oldest known crocodile eggshells which may have belonged to "drop crocs" - creatures ...

A carnivorous "death-ball" sponge has been declared one of the oddest finds made during a deep-sea expedition near Antarctica. The unusual creature was discovered 2.2 miles (3.5km) deep in a trench ...

Crean’s tale of discovery, endurance and courage ends with his heartbreaking account of how he found the frozen, frost-bitten ...

A new study of Antarctic ice cores published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has extended our record ...