US President Donald Trump’s fixation with Greenland has once again put the world’s largest island back in the spotlight. So, ...

A vivid blue iceberg drifting from Antarctica is drawing scientific attention as it is beginning to break apart.

History teachers love making everything sound clean and simple. "This happened, then that happened, everyone learned a lesson ...

As much of the United States faces numbing cold, treacherous ice and heavy snow from an enormous winter storm, President ...

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...

A new study shows penguins are breeding earlier than ever in the Antarctic Peninsula. This region is one of the fastest-warming areas of the world due to climate change, and penguins time their ...

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is a hidden ocean – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.

Based at Concordia Station in Antarctica, the Ice Memory Sanctuary will preserve glacial ice cores for centuries to come.

In the endless white expanse, a small mound broke the horizon. As explorer Matthieu Tordeur and glaciologist Heïdi Sevestre skied towards it, they saw a golden head emerging from the snow. It was the ...

The Scenic Eclipse will help ring in 2026, live from Antarctica. The Scenic Group ship will be featured during ABC News' New Year's Eve broadcast. It will be the first time that ABC will have New Year ...

Recent research has led scientists to new conclusions about the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica. Some are reassuring, others the opposite. By Raymond Zhong Scientists have never loved the scary ...

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