How an ancient glacier is helping scientists predict climate impacts on ocean currents
How an ancient glacier is helping scientists predict climate impacts on ocean currents

By Lily Carey
Medill New Service, Dec. 23, 2024

Over 70,000 years ago, much of modern-day Europe was covered by a vast ice sheet — one that was slowly growing in size as global temperatures dropped.

This Eurasian ice sheet accumulated mass over

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Glacial geologists uncover synchronized timescale of last ice age across both hemispheres with clues to climate now
Glacial geologists uncover synchronized timescale of last ice age across both hemispheres with clues to climate now

By Christiana Freitag
Medill Reports, Nov. 3, 2024
Trekking up windy and swampy fjords of southwestern Norway, University of Maine graduate researcher Katie Westbrook searched for a boulder – but not just any boulder. Westbrook was looking for an

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Yuxin Zhou: Accidental oceanographer finds clues to climate shifts
Yuxin Zhou: Accidental oceanographer finds clues to climate shifts

By Fern Alling
Medill News Service, Dec. 27, 2024

Yuxin Zhou didn’t set out to be a paleoceanographer. The first undergraduate major he declared was computer science.

“When you’re an international student coming to the United States and you don’t

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Sustainable architecture pioneers Chicago’s past, present and future
Sustainable architecture pioneers Chicago’s past, present and future

By Sara Cooper,
Medill News Service, Dec. 20, 2024

Photo at top: The Chicago skyline as seen from Lake Michigan. (Photo by Sara Cooper/Medill news Service)

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The Antarctic ice sheet is melting. How’d it happen so fast?
The Antarctic ice sheet is melting. How’d it happen so fast?

By Sara Cooper

Medill News Service, Dec. 18, 2024

In the span of minutes, a cliff of ice has fractured on Antarctica’s western coast, expelling a monolith into the sea. An iceberg was just born, and many more will follow into the South Atlantic

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Far from a glacial pace: New research indicates a swift end to the last ice age
Far from a glacial pace: New research indicates a swift end to the last ice age

By Sara Cooper
Medill News Service, Dec. 18, 2024

Nearly 19,000 years ago the Cordillera Darwin mountain range was changing. Fast. The mass of glacial ice that blanketed the region, previously sustained by the cool conditions of the Last Glacial Maximum,

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Moraine ages in Norway show global synchrony of atmospheric climate trends
Moraine ages in Norway show global synchrony of atmospheric climate trends

By Frances Mack
Medill News Service, Dec. 16, 2024

As the three field researchers scaled boulders left by the retreats of Norwegian glaciers thousands of years ago, they could hardly see 10 feet in front of them, let alone the rock samples they were

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