"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

The melting polar ice cap has sparked an increase in ice-class orders in recent years. Chinese shipbuilders, which today build over half of the world’s ... no hurry to go after politically ...

The most important thing for them to experience,” he says, “is how difficult this is.” In the depths of the cold war, US soldiers were a familiar sight in Norwegian garrison towns north of the Arctic ...

natural gas and other highly sought after mineral resources and is home to an existing US military base. Melting ice caps around the island, located between the US, Russia and Europe, are also ...

In another great leap in space exploration, Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launched the Fram2 Mission, the first-ever human spaceflight to orbit Earth over its polar regions. The mission, named after ...

The strongest ocean current on Earth circles Antarctica. It’s the primary way water moves between the Atlantic, Pacific and ...

Rapidly melting Antarctic ice would also further contribute to global sea-level rise. No ACC slowdown has actually been observed yet in the real world, but the study shows a concerning trend.

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

But underneath all that melting ice is something the whole world wants: the rare earth elements that make modern society—and the clean energy revolution—possible. That could soon turn ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released the most detailed map yet of what Antarctica ... sealed under a perpetual cap of ice that contains 70% of the entire world's supply of fresh water.