Scientists of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute have found that over the past five years, glaciers in the archipelago's southwestern part every year have been losing the ice layer of almost ...

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 broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to ...

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

Tamás, 18, who posts to Reddit under the username u/Serious_Comfortable3, took to the r/Fossils sub on March 10, where he shared a photo of what initially looked to be an enormous black tooth, as big ...

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 ...

Greenland’s minerals draw U.S. interest, but Arctic conditions, local opposition, and supply chain gaps limit near-term strategic gains.

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 ...