Historical climate changes caused the global ice volume to expand and retreat several times. According to the new study, this has happened more frequently in Antarctica than previously thought. Scientific archives worldwide represent an enormously valuable treasure...
In Ong Valley in the Transantarctic Mountains, researchers have recovered what may be the oldest ice core ever discovered. Photo: Jaakko Putkonen While several teams in East Antarctica are drilling continuous ice cores in search of 1.5 million-year-old ice, another...
Arctic sea ice will continue to retreat as warming increases. Heat transport through the newly described oceanic heat channel could even accelerate this process. Photo: Julia Hager The causes for the rapid warming of the North Atlantic and the Arctic Oceans seem...
