Cycling through the night in freezing snow and ice sees Spencer Matthews close in on the end of his extreme triathlon ...

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

Warmer air makes glaciers speed up more and reach peak speed earlier each year, showing temperature strongly controls how ice moves.

Satellite data reveals shocking speed in the collapse of Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier. What does this mean for the planet?

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

Scientists believe this pattern of weakening could be an early warning for other Antarctic ice shelves as well.

If your family wants a gentle introduction to Antarctic wildlife, the South Shetland Islands are the perfect first stop. With ...

An exhibit that opened this month at the Sioux City Public Museum focuses on the South Pole, according to KSCJ’s Woody ...

Two decades of satellite and GPS data show the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf slowly losing its grip on a crucial stabilizing ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that ...