Imagine a world where the ocean is so cold that most life would freeze within minutes, yet one remarkable creature swims ...

Wealthy adventurers and bucket listers rub shoulders with scientists looking to gather data as funding vanishes under the ...

An overall warming trend has been observed in the Antarctic continent by scientists over a long term with the speed 0.12 C ...

The Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth, has seen temperatures rise five times faster than the ...

Despite being overlooked down at the South Pole, Antarctica actually plays a large role in our world and you would notice if ...

Scientists at Little Dome C recovered the oldest continuous ice core, unlocking 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history.

Microbial communities feeding on geothermal methane seeps beneath the Antarctic ice sheet could resemble life-supporting ...

These points of no return are specific moments when the planet has warmed so much that certain effects become irreversible.

What particularly interested Cameron—himself a pioneer in underwater and deep-ocean filmmaking technology —were the custom ...

Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

Rutgers' research reveals the widespread presence of mercury pollution in Earth’s polar regions. In 1962, environmentalist ...

As much of the equipment and facilities required specialized research and modification to adapt to the extreme conditions, ...