Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

Researchers were working off the coast of Antarctica when it happened: A gigantic iceberg about 19 miles long cracked off the ice sheet on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen ...

Over 300 undetected earthquakes have been shaking the Thwaites, or Doomsday, Glacier in Antarctica for over a decade, ...

The Polar Star (WAGB 10), a Seattle-based US Coast Guard Cutter, departed Friday for a months-long deployment to Antarctica. The Polar Star will be a part of Operation Deep Freeze, a joint military ...

Imagine watching a glacier thousands of miles away and seeing what looks like smoke drifting from its frozen edge. Not from fire, obviously.That would be absurd in one of the coldest places on Earth.

Researchers were working off the coast of Antarctica when it happened: A gigantic iceberg about 19 miles long cracked off the ice sheet on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen ...

An explorer and a glaciologist are kite-skiing across Antarctica with a ground-penetrating radar to gather data that will ...

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and ...

Over a century after it sank to the depths of the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica, the lost ship of Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton, has been found. In 1915 the Endurance was trapped by ...

(NEW YORK) — An enormous slab of ice nearly six times the size of New York City has calved from the frozen coastline of Antarctica into the Weddell Sea, becoming the largest iceberg afloat on the ...

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10) transits across Elliott Bay after departing Coast Guard Base Seattle, Washington, Nov. 22, 2024. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Briana ...

ST. JOHN'S, NewfoundlandST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland — The wreck of the last ship of a famed Irish explorer of Antarctica has been found off the coast of Canada.