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A new study reveals ancient Greenland rocks in Iceland, evidencing iceberg movement during the Late Antique Little Ice Age.
Analysis of rocks from Iceland indicates that extreme climate possibly led to the wipeout of the Western Roman Empire.
Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...
Beneath the world’s vast and icy glaciers, where sunlight never reaches and only the bravest scientists dare to venture, lie ...
A trio of researchers has found evidence of the impact of the Late Antique Little Ice Age on Iceland almost 1,500 years ago.
In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness interviews Salem ice climber Forrest "Frosty" Gill about the fun and challenge of ascending frozen waterfalls and ice flows across ...
As autumn settled over Antarctica, sea ice began its seasonal return, with NASA capturing striking images of new growth in ...
Learn what the rocks in Iceland tell researchers about climate conditions at the time of the Roman Empire’s collapse.
Ice is a complicated material,” says Jean-Denis Brassard, an anti-icing specialist at the University of Quebec. Although one chunk may look like any other, each is a messy collection of individual ...
By systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its ...
Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.
The zircon crystals’ “fingerprints” pointed to different ... a “known major episode of ice-rafting, where vast chunks of ice break away from glaciers, drift across the ocean, and eventually melt, ...