When a team of archaeologists followed an ancient trail marked by stone cairns to the top of a mountain in Norway, they weren ...

R esearchers uncovered evidence that ancient humans survived on the Tibetan Plateau during the coldest period of the past 2.5 million years, demonstrating their resilience and ada ...

(A moraine is a ridge of debris formed by a glacier.) About 11,700 years ago the lake breached the moraine near present-day Browns Valley at a place now called Traverse Gap. The flow of water and ...

See that U-shaped valley? That’s Lairig Ghru. It was carved out by a glacier, a huge river of ice, during the ice age - just like corries and other glacial features. As glaciers move downhill ...

However, until now, the role of glacial meltwater in mobilizing methane had been largely overlooked. Kleber and Magerl focused on Vallåkrabreen, a small valley glacier in central Svalbard ...