Subglacial valleys and mountain ranges discovered near South Pole

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The findings are the first to emerge from extensive ice penetrating radar data collected in Antarctica as part of the European Space Agency PolarGAP project and have been published in the journal, Geophysical Research Letters. Although there are extensive satellite data that help image the surface of the Earth and its deep interior, there was …

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Could resurrecting mammoths help stop Arctic emissions?

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If you managed to time travel back to Ice-Age Europe, you might be forgiven for thinking you had instead crash landed in some desolate part of the African savannah. But the chilly temperatures and the presence of six-ton shaggy beasts with extremely long tusks would confirm you really were in the Pleistocene epoch, otherwise known …

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