Trump’s tariffs put a spotlight on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, which comprise a remote volcanic refuge for ...

Yana is the most recent and, presumably, the oldest find among the six baby mammoths discovered earlier in the world, excluding fragmented remains. It is also the third baby mammoth found in Yakutia.

An iceberg the size of Chicago that broke off of an Antarctic ice shelf has revealed a thriving ecosystem beneath it, ...

A University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led study is developing innovative methods to accurately predict how ice sheets ...

Fossils of 444 million-year-old creatures whose bodies were preserved "inside-out" have been discovered in South Africa.

In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

Researchers think that shifting ocean currents brought warmer seawater to the area and contributed to the collapse. The collapse raises new concerns about East Antarctica. The Conger ice shelf is near ...

A newly published scientific study, (“Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023,” Nature, 19 ...

China’s glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small glaciers disappearing ...

Graduate student Tristan Bench, who majored in geology as an undergraduate, spent two months in Antarctica recording glacial ...

From efforts to save the biggest glacier in the Alps and a lunar mission exploring volcanic formations on the moon to the ...

China's glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small glaciers disappearing ...