Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inlet where no ship had sailed. Until now.

Low clouds have lifted long enough for helicopters to ferry scientists and their gear to a fast-melting glacier on the edge ...

An ice core is something of a time capsule, containing the history of the Earth’s past atmosphere in a frozen climate archive ...

Researchers in Antarctica think they might have been missing an essential part of the puzzle when it comes to melting ...

The ocean end of the Thwaites Glacier is being hit by various earthquakes, which can increase the sea levels rapidly if the ice collapses.

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

The crazy descent of a remote peak in British Columbia encompassed a hanging glacier, four sheer cliffs, and plenty of ...

New satellite records capture how polar ice sheets slide toward the sea, helping scientists better understand ice loss and ...

Scientists have never loved the scary nickname journalists have given the glacier where the current Antarctic expedition is headed: the “Doomsday Glacier.” ...

Few places offer a sense of wonder like those within the Arctic Circle. This frigid frontier town is home to iceberg-laden ...

"I certainly don't expect A-23A to last through the austral summer." The post Antarctica’s Former Largest Iceberg Is Now ...

The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea—an important dynamic for climate and sea-rise modeling—has been captured over a 10-year period by ...