Scientists say that hidden melting beneath Antarctica’s ice could rapidly reshape sea levels, but they do not know when.

The biology of Antarctic species is very different; warm things up by just a degree or so, and they could emerge into a very ...

Mars may have once possessed an ocean at least as large as Earth's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. Previous research ...

From global volcanic events to past El Niño circulations to the presence of microbial life, scientists at NCPOR have been ...

Generations of Times journalists have journeyed there with scientists. Their coverage traces humankind’s changing ...

Iceberg A23a could die any time now, as the latest photos from NASA show it covered with a blue mush that forms from ...

Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inlet where no ship had sailed. Until now.

A massive iceberg has triggered a catastrophic die-off of Emperor Penguin chicks in Antarctica, blocking thousands of parents ...

While US designs on Greenland are entirely deliberate, withdrawal of influence in Antarctica appears to be accidental. Could ...

What's under the ice? For the first time, scientists have been able to map the mountains and valleys under the ice of ...

Penguin colonies are declining worldwide; explore their adaptations, threats, and what their struggle tells us about Earth’s ...

Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, ...