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

The ‘Scenic Eclipse II’ was sailing through the Ross Sea in Antarctica on Jan. 17 when it got stuck in a thick sheet of ice and required assistance from the U.S. Coast Guard.

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

In the unforgiving polar wilderness, scientists go to great lengths to safeguard the devices that gather precious data.

Most assume that cold water is deadly for fish. The truth is, nature has incredible exceptions. In polar oceans and snowy lakes where temperatures hov.

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

There is no doubt that science is advancing by leaps and bounds, allowing us to resolve doubts and answer questions that ...

A new study finds that warming temperatures are causing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier, threatening some species with ...

Over the decade, gentoo penguins showed the largest shift, advancing their breeding season by an average of 13 days — the ...

European scientists opened the Ice Memory Sanctuary in Antarctica, preserving glacier ice cores to study past climate, track ...

Penguin colonies are declining worldwide; explore their adaptations, threats, and what their struggle tells us about Earth’s ...

Ancient ocean sediments reveal Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated repeatedly during past warm periods, offering clues to future ...