Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

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

Scientists just found evidence that Antarctica was a rainforest when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Some 90 million years ago, ...

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Scientists in the Antarctic have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice—drilling down 1.7 miles for ice samples a ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

The viruses, which were found in an ice core collected in 2015 ... makeup suggests they would have more likely originated from soil or plants, not animals or humans. The findings were published ...

Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more than 200 days, drilling into the ice and processing the ice core at a remote ...

An ice core drilled from the ice sheet near the bordering ... Crop rotation has been shown to synergistically improve barley yields and soil quality on the Tibetan Plateau, where challenging ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Diversified cropping systems enhance nitrogen supply but do not increase soil carbon levels. Despite increased carbon input from diverse rotations and manure ...