Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong meets with Paul Anker, a drilling engineer aboard the icebreaker Araon, to discuss the ...

HX Expeditions' An Amundsen Night program lets you spend the night on the Antarctic ice, here's what it was like.

The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, located in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), are among ...

Antarctic ice loss increased rapidly in past climates when oceans warmed first, raising risks for modern coastlines.

The United Arab Emirates is expanding its scientific footprint in the Arctic and Antarctic through strategic treaty accessions, research partnerships, exploration programmes and record-setting ...

To survive the bitter cold, Antarctica’s native residents adorn themselves with thick layers of fat and fur. A non-biting midge, on the other hand, has only a soft shell to shield itself—but that ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that helped release long-stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Deep-sea ...

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet covers some 760,000 square miles and is up to 1.2 miles thick. If it were to ever melt away entirely, it would add 10 feet to global sea levels. Even considering how ...

Researchers warn Antarctica is undergoing abrupt changes that could trigger global consequences. Melting ice, collapsing ice shelves, and disrupted ocean circulation threaten sea levels, ecosystems, ...

The calving was so drastic that it caused measurable earthquakes in the region. An Antarctic glacier has experienced a rapid retreat 10 times faster than previously measured, according to new research ...

If you know every public bathroom in town…If leaping out of bed to pee is routine…If you’d like a kinder, gentler treatment option for an enlarged prostate…keep reading. Meet Bob, age 75. He wanted to ...

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the climatic blowtorch of human-caused global warming, most of Antarctica’s vast ...