The world's frozen oceans, which help to keep the planet cool, currently have less ice than ever previously recorded, ...

Discover how the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, survives extreme cold through unique adaptations.

Extensive evidence, including global temperature and sea ice data, shows Earth's climate is changing due to human activity.

Back then, it was a regional list, conceived as an objective way to determine which mountains in the Indonesian archipelago would probably be worth attempting to hike at weekends. We developed the ...

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

Meet a blind girl on a mission to save the world, fasten your seatbelts for the ride of a lifetime, wrap up warm for a ...

A group of Spanish scientists exploring the Antarctic seabed has discovered "massive emissions" of methane, a potent ...

developed and issued two guiding documents to serve as roadmaps for this effort: the 2022 National Strategy for the Arctic ...

The formation, movement and melting of icebergs offer insights into some of the most extreme areas of the cryosphere, like Antarctica and Greenland.

The sun has barely set at 11pm when a distinct change in the motion aboard Lindblad’s National Geographic Resolution tells us ...

The Thwaites Glacier is one of many bodies of ice that are melting, but this massive, Antarctic glacier is uniquely important when it comes to sea level rise. “We’re talking a ...

Roman Vilfand noted another anomaly - in the Antarctica, at the South Pole, where the ice area is 5% below average ...