The last ice age began roughly 120,000 years ago and ended about 11,500 years ago, but plenty of signs of this last period of ice domination still exist all over Earth. The Midwestern United States ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Much like the ice he helped preserve for decades, Chester “Chet” Langway’s legacy at the University at Buffalo endures. Faculty here are still studying the ancient sediments that ...

On August 28, 2026, I visited the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) and attended the special ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...

The important role ships play in gathering scientific data in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean has been outlined at a leading Antarctic science conference in Hobart. The biennial Australian Antarctic ...

Marissa Grunes is a freelance science writer and Lecturer in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics and Society at CU Boulder. Every semester, she takes first-year Engineering students on a tour ...

Ice cores recovered from an ice cap in northwestern Tibet appear to preserve fragments of ancient ice from the last ice age, extending Earth's glacial record by more than 100,000 years and making them ...