A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater near the surface could help explain some of the decrease in Antarctic sea ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015 ...

Stand in awe while admiring the constantly changing, absolutely stunning Alaskan landscape, which includes the largest ...

One expert notes that glacier shrinkage has wide effects on agriculture, fisheries, drinking water levels and cross-boundary ...

Many of us know Antarctica as a land of ice and not much else. But hidden beneath the miles of glaciers and ice sheets lies a ...

This data set provides a list of the three largest glaciers and glacier complexes in each of the 19 glacial regions of the world as defined by the Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers. The data are ...

Scientists are venturing to the Southern Ocean to study clouds and the world's cleanest air to better understand climate ...

The team on RRS Sir David Attenborough are part of a global network of scientists working to understand how Antarctica is ...

This is the fifth largest calving event since 2000, Shuman says. There have been large calving events in 2001, 2007, 2013, 2015 and now 2017. "So that spacing tells you about six years between ...

A century after Shackleton's ship Endurance sunk near Elephant Island, ITV News' Martin Stew makes the same journey on board ...

The rift stretches for 100 miles and is 1,800 feet at its deepest, and right on the edge is Fish River Lodge, a haven for ...

With more than 700 miles of hiking trails, 17,000 miles of creeks and rivers, and 128 glaciers, ... Tongass is not only the largest temperate rain forest in the country, ...