An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

If the ice shelf had disappeared during the last interglacial period, our drill site would have been only 50 km from the ocean, and the concentration of salt would have been many times higher than ...

The giant ice sheet formed during a period of the last ice age known as the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT) that lasted between 1.3 million and 700,000 years ago. (The ice age itself began ...