global warming

NIU professor, student part of drilling project exploring continent’s warmer past
DeKalb, Ill. – As a kindergartner, Justin Dodd went to “career day” as a geologist. As a teenager, Finlay McElmeel fell in love with astronomy. Those...
DeKalb, Ill. — The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $271,000 grant to NIU Board of Trustees Professor Reed Scherer and colleague Christine Siddoway of Colorado...
DeKALB, Ill. — Scientists  generally have believed that since the end of the last Ice Age, about 15,000 years ago, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet...
Tiny ocean fossils distributed widely across rock surfaces in the Transantarctic Mountains point to the potential for a substantial rise in global sea levels under...
Courtesy of the National Science Foundation Using a specially designed hot-water drill to cleanly bore through a half mile of ice, a National Science Foundation...