A massive iceberg broke off from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica in January, giving researchers a rare opportunity to ...

Stanford researchers discovered that increased meltwater and rainfall account for 60% of the decades-long gap between ...

Climate models have predicted that the ocean surrounding Antarctica should be warming, but new research shows that it's ...

In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

Researchers found increased meltwater and rain explain 60% of a decades-long mismatch between predicted and observed temperatures in the ocean around Antarctica.

The Arctic reaches its maximum sea ice in March each year and then starts a six-month melt season. The National Snow and Ice Data Center said the peak measurement taken Saturday was 5.53 million ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

Amid mounting global health concerns about PFAS, communities living along the waterway must grapple with how contamination is ...

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

We’ve pumped huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that needs to be paid back. Large animals like wolves, bison and whales may already be tackling the problem ...

Scientists have discovered a “thriving ecosystem” of strange deep sea creatures on a newly exposed seafloor after an iceberg broke off near the Antarctic. At such a critical moment in US history, we ...

On a January morning in 2025, an iceberg the size of Chicago broke free from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica. It ...