If you’ve been following Miles O’Brien’s reports from Antarctica, you know he’s with an international group of researchers ...

In one of the most remote and harsh environments on Earth, three penguin species are telling a story that’s about much more ...

Antarctica's looking like a good place to head south for a vacation today. Check out how the temperature in Antarctica compares to Iowa.

After scientists reported a brief but notable uptick in ice mass in Antarctica, climate skeptics utilized the data to claim the continent does not suffer from human-induced warming. This is false; the ...

Antarctica has surprised scientists with an unusual event: the Hektoria glacier, located on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, ...

A study published today found that while ice shelves in West Antarctica melt year-round, those in East Antarctica experience summer melting spikes, when sea ice retreats and warm ocean water flows ...

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old. The goal of the French duo is to better ...

A study in Nature Geoscience reveals that changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) closely tracked marine algae growth ...