After working and camping for a week on Thwaites Glacier, scientists were ready to start drilling into the ice, if only the ...
A U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker assisted an Antarctica cruise ship after shifting pack ice slowed its voyage, allowing it to ...
A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...
When people think of the coldest locations on this planet, they often think of snow-covered forests and frozen bodies of water during prolonged polar nights. Although Antarctica has scored the lowest ...
The remnants of ice attached to the coast offer astounding insights into the climate history of past millennia. An ...
The remnants of ice that was attached to the coast offer astounding insights into the climate history of past millennia. An ...
Generations of Times journalists have journeyed there with scientists. Their coverage traces humankind’s changing ...
A massive iceberg has triggered a catastrophic die-off of Emperor Penguin chicks in Antarctica, blocking thousands of parents ...
Greenland feels distant even before you look at a map. It is spoken of as ice, as emptiness, as somewhere untouched, yet people have lived there for t.
Strip away Antarctica’s ice and the familiar white disc at the bottom of the map dissolves into something far stranger: a broken ring of mountains, deep basins and flooded valleys that would redraw ...
The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...
Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning both hemispheres of the globe. The Western Hemisphere sector of the ...