New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

More information: Tian Li et al, Pervasive glacier retreats across Svalbard from 1985 to 2023, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-55948-1 ...

An international team of scientists unveiled exceptionally well-preserved glacial landforms buried nearly one kilometer beneath the North Sea, dating back approximately one million years ...

An international team of researchers, including a glaciologist at Newcastle University, UK, has discovered remarkably well-preserved glacial landforms buried almost 1 km beneath the North Sea.

Imagine blocks of ice floating past as you come face-to-face with an imposing blue-tinted glacial wall ... that prove humanity’s resilience, Svalbard is rightly a dream destination for many ...

Grounded ice sheets move sediment around as they grow and shrink, creating erosional and depositional landforms from which scientists can reconstruct a region's glacial past. "When the ice is ...