It’s the kind of event that when it happens, you leave whatever you’re doing,” said Patricia Esquete, the expedition’s chief scientist.

In this commentary, the author examines how the U.S. military sees climate change as a threat in itself and a threat ...

Antarctica isn’t a floating chunk of ice like the Arctic. Beneath its frozen surface sits a solid continent of mountains, ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

An arctic expedition uncovered this lost and mysterious military base that even the country's government didn't know about.

An audacious NASA mission suggests that dust blown north from Greenland couldhelp explain why Arctic ice is melting even ...

Increasing international tensions, global warming and the changing world economy have put Greenland at the heart of the ...

The "White Continent" has lured explorers and scientists to its stunning, ice-encrusted landscape ... there's visual evidence ...

The state-of-the-art vessel will contain features such as a 'moon pool' and helicopter hangar, and is designed to cross the ...

Global sea ice hit a record low for February, with Arctic and Antarctic ice levels far below average. Rising global ...

Combined Antarctic and Arctic sea ice cover -- ocean water that freezes and floats on the surface -- dropped to a record minimum extent of 16.04 million square kilometres on February 7, Copernicus ...