What did the Arctic look like in the distant past? The answer carries significant implications for understanding how it will change in the future in the context of human-driven global warming. Yet ...

The Holocene epoch in the North Atlantic has been characterised by a complex interplay between ocean circulation, cryospheric change and atmospheric variability. Early in the Holocene, meltwater input ...

Some of history’s most powerful eruptions may have plunged Earth into centuries of sustained cooling. A volcanic eruption can ...

Researchers drilled through 509 meters of firn and ice at Prudhoe Dome in northwestern Greenland and pulled up sediment that had not seen daylight in thousands of years. Using infrared-stimulated ...