Antarctic fish have evolved incredible adaptations to survive the Southern Ocean's extreme cold. Antifreeze proteins prevent ...

When scientists peered beneath one of Antarctica's floating ice shelves, they were surprised to find an upside-down landscape ...

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Understanding what temperature will trigger unavoidable melt of the Ross Ice Shelf, and the subsequent collapse of the West ...

While most teachers will be in their classrooms preparing for semester tests this December, one teacher from Lower Brule will ...

Scientists will study the impact of tourism and climate change on one of the world’s most unique and fragile environments ...

The Antarctic Summer The fall climbing season has ended in the Himalayas, home to the fourteen 8,000-meter peaks – the highest mountains in the world. While som ...

Beneath the extreme cold of Antarctica, an unexpected treasure has emerged from the depths. A fragment of amber, a remnant of ...

A rare natural phenomenon has been spotted on a river during the current cold snap. Foam generated by the falls at Norby Weir, near Thirsk, has frozen to form circular discs known as "ice pancakes".

While most teachers will be in their classrooms preparing for semester tests this December, one teacher from South Dakota ...

Located approximately 2.5 miles beneath Russia’s Vostok Station on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS ... ice sheet itself insulates the lake from cold temperatures above.