Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

By using a fiber-optic cable to detect tiny vibrations a mile below the surface, scientists discovered a surprising way that ...

A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.

Researchers unearthed an ancient glacier in the Canadian Arctic that could help reveal Earth's climatic history.

Did you know that the ice in Greenland and Antarctica is melting faster than ever? 🌍 This rapid change has serious ...

Cars and trucks have difficulty driving in icy conditions, so how difficult is it to land much a heavier and faster airplane ...

Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I have thought we were skimming low ...

Ballerina Victoria Dauberville braves below zero temperatures on the bulbous bow of a cruise ship in Antarctica.

We humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, so naturally, certain things have slipped through the cracks ...

Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

Darren Edwards knows a lot about hopelessness; one minute, he was rock climbing in North Wales about to finish his route, and the next, he was in the hospital paralyzed from the chest down with a ...

While warming temperatures are driving a widespread loss of ice shelves, major calving events have not increased in frequency ...