The National Science Foundation has fired workers at the office that manages polar research, raising fears about a reduced ...

A massive iceberg known as A23a is currently on a collision course with South Georgia Island, threatening to disrupt the ...

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that ...

Will McGough thought he’d scatter his father’s ashes in Antarctica for a special tribute. But once there, he learned that wouldn’t work as planned in this special, delicate environment.

Glaciers are losing ice at an accelerating rate, threatening global sea levels and freshwater supplies. A massive ...

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is now the largest contributor to sea level rise, and scientists at UNH are traveling ...

Many of us know Antarctica as a land of ice and not much else. But hidden beneath the miles of glaciers and ice sheets lies a landmass that was last exposed 40 million years ago. What does this land ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

Australia's Antarctic territory represents the largest sliver of the ice continent. For decades, Australian scientists have ...

Every direction he turned, he could see ice stretching ... attempt of the trans-Antarctica crossing that Shackleton had planned before the sinking of his ship. What’s more, Worsley hoped to ...

With centuries’ old primary source documents, a team of researchers in Romania are exploring how a region best known for vampire legends was drastically altered by the effects of the Little Ice Age.