Past ice sheets have retreated rapidly, raising global sea level at rates >1 cm per year, with marine ice sheets collapsing and terrestrial ice sheets retreating in a more gradual fashion.

Ice cores are climate scientists’ best way of understand Earth’s climate in the recent geologic past, largely because of the air bubbles trapped within them. An international team of ...

scientists say they've tapped into an extraordinary archive of the Earth's climate in the ice deep beneath Antarctica. They hope it'll help them understand both how climate changed in the past and ...