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

When the crew aboard an ocean science expedition learned that an iceberg the size of Chicago had broken off from an Antarctic ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers could have dramatic global consequences.

Patrick Taylor, the deputy science lead for the mission known as ... The team expected to find ice with a thickness of about 11.5 feet (3.5 meters); instead, they saw a thickness of just 7.2 ...

NASA’s most ambitious Arctic research mission yet has uncovered unexpectedly high concentrations of ice particles in clouds ...

A gigantic iceberg cracked off Antarctica on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen daylight in decades. Researchers decided to search the seafloor under the freshly exposed ocean. What ...

It will be essential for us as a species to maintain superiority, but [...] we are not the pinnacle of creation,” he says.

Antarctica is Earth's only uninhabited continent, home to the South Pole, and subject to a delicate balance of cooperation ...

There are only three seasons in a high school sports calendar. But Starpoint senior Natalee Lawrence is a member on four teams. Field hockey, ice hockey, lacrosse and bowling. But one sticks out the ...

Prof. John Pomeroy is a globally renowned expert and scientist in hydrology and climate science and serves as the primary ...