When researchers set out to measure tiny plastic fragments in Arctic waters, they expected to find pollution that had drifted thousands of miles from populated coastlines. What they discovered instead ...

Even with a sturdy ship and the help of satellite images, negotiating the frozen ocean requires a dose of humility before nature’s might.

Earth’s core has often been described as just a giant ball of iron and nickel. Now, a new study argues that it is also a major storage place for hydrogen, possibly equivalent to dozens of oceans’ ...

The record-breaking sediment core acts as a geological archive, capturing 23 million years of climate history to predict how ...

An international team featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has drilled the longest ever sediment core from under an ice sheet, providing a record stretching back ...

Researchers drilled a 25-meter-long ice core from a section of the cave known as the Great Hall, capturing a frozen record of microbial life spanning roughly 13,000 years.

Whether it’s the ocean’s deepest hydrothermal vents or tall mountain peaks, bacteria is likely surviving and thriving. Ice caves can host a wide variety of microorganisms and offer biologists a bevy ...

Bacteria have evolved to adapt to all of Earth's most extreme conditions, from scorching heat to temperatures well below zero. Ice caves are just one of the environments hosting a variety of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Figure skating traces its roots to 1772, when Englishman Robert Jones provided one of the first documented accounts of the sport. By the early 1900s, figure skating had crossed ...

Australian scientists have drilled 400 metres into the Antarctic ice sheet, to retrieve ice that formed at the end of the ...

A University of Minnesota researcher is back home after a months-long journey to the end of the earth, collecting ice samples that are likely millions of years old.