Arctic sea-ice is currently at its smallest recorded extent for the time of year, while Antarctic sea-ice is close to a new ...

Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...

Discover how the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, survives extreme cold through unique adaptations.

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

Roman Vilfand noted another anomaly - in the Antarctica, at the South Pole, where the ice area is 5% below average ...

The Thwaites Glacier is one of many bodies of ice that are melting, but this massive, Antarctic glacier is uniquely important when it comes to sea level rise. “We’re talking a ...

By Newsbase Extreme winter warming event linked to a deep low-pressure system above Iceland WHAT: The North Pole has ...

A parliamentary report has called on for a second icebreaking vessel and more reliable funding for Antarctic research.

A new study focuses on improving global temperature data sets in light of uneven warming across the globe. To fill gaps in ...

Quakes recorded for the first time inside Greenland's biggest frozen river, the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, suggest this ...

There is an “icebreaker gap” between Russia and the United States. For decades, the Soviet Union and now Russia have ...

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more ...