Understanding what happens to Antarctica’s ice matters, because as it melts, sea levels rise, affecting lives and economies ...

Antarctica, one of the most remote places on Earth, teems with life. For tourists who make it this far south, the experience ...

A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...

The Southern Ocean is one of the most remote places on Earth, but that doesn't mean it is tranquil. Tumultuous waves that can swallow vessels ensure that the Antarctic Peninsula has a constant drone ...

This month has been an eventful one for Dexter’s Lynn Bergren. She’s literally been running around the world. On Dec. 13, ...

If you’re looking to strike gold — silver or bronze, too — look to Ailsa Craig. This uninhabited isle 10 miles off the coast of southwest Scotland is the source of the ...

Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge about what happens after the period of ...

About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The ...

Imagine peeling back miles of frozen white and revealing valleys, rivers, and mountains that haven't seen sunlight in tens of ...

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and ...

Antarctica faces abrupt, irreversible climate changes as warming nears 1.5 °C, threatening ice, oceans, ecosystems, and ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from ...