They wouldn't have encountered a speck of ice; even before the events we're talking about, Earth was already much warmer than it is today. But as the Paleocene epoch gave way to the Eocene ...

The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to access, and will climate change make any difference?

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In a new study, researchers modeled the drift of Earth's axis and the movement of water - first, with only ice sheets and glaciers ... “OBS”) to the modeling results without (dashed blue ...

This era marked a dramatic change in the Earth’s climate ... of greenhouse gases without contaminating the samples. This technique requires only a 1 cm thick ice sample, enabling unprecedented ...