Nearly 700 years after the Black Death, a possible mass grave filled with human remains has been discovered near Erfurt, ...

Researchers digging more than 13 feet into the parched floor of Chile’s Atacama Desert have found evidence of something long thought unlikely there: microbial communities persisting beneath one of the ...

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Researchers are looking into our planet’s past to understand its future. Just like archaeologists investigate layers of dirt for ancient artifacts, geologists analyze layers in cores—tube-shaped ...

An international research team has achieved a scientific milestone by recovering a 228-meter-long sediment core from beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Drilled at Crary Ice Rise, this ...

An international team has drilled the longest ever sediment core from under an ice sheet, providing a record stretching back millions of years that will help climate scientists forecast the fate of ...

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Beneath the ice of West Antarctica lie natural records of past climate variability, containing sediments deposited during warmer periods when the region was partly or entirely ice-free. An ...

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 ...

A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial periods, meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet intensified stratification in ...