International research and highly-specialized divers are bringing an underground, underwater world to the surface ...

Deep under Nevada’s desert, a cave called Devils Hole II holds a 580,000‑year record of how climate and water have changed in the American Southwest. This record suggests that today’s drought is part ...

Stanislav Kutuzov felt the drillhead he was controlling smash into the rock more than 100 meters below him high on a glacier ...

NASA scientists say they may have finally identified an unusual feature hidden beneath thousands of feet of ice near the ...

A one-meter core of calcite pulled from a cave of Devils Hole in Nevada has yielded a rare record of roughly 580,000 years of climate change ...

Scientists analysed oxygen isotopes locked inside the minerals. These isotopes shift according to climate at formation.

Scientists discover 580,000 years of dramatic climate changes hidden in a Nevada cave, offering a chilling glimpse into the future of the Southwest as temperatures rise and water dwindles.

A one-metre-long core of calcite extracted from a cave wall in the southwestern United States has offered researchers a rare ...

Climate history recorded in a calcite deposit in a southern Nevada cave indicates that the hot, arid southwestern United ...

The town of Greybull sent a disproportionately large number of workers to Antarctica in the '80s and '90s to keep the McMurdo ...

A calcite deposit in Nevada captures 580,000 years of climate swings and helps explain shifting heat, rainfall and water resources.

Minerals from a cave in Greenland reveal that the Arctic was warm and had no permafrost, with CO₂ levels similar to today's.