Extreme weather-related disasters are increasing in frequency around the world. See how climate change affected different ...

The Tara Polar Station, a $23 million research vessel with a crew of 12, will drift across the Arctic ice to enable better ...

Extremely low sea ice levels in the Arctic and Antarctica signal a "new normal" that may accelerate global warming and ...

Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, cascading down underwater cliffs to the ocean floor thousands of meters below.

Accomplishing this will be hard at a time when some world powers are hampering research in the region. Scientists need to ...

Europe may be the second-smallest continent by land area, but it packs a punch when it comes to culture, history, and ...

Geologists have uncovered a long-lost continental fragment buried beneath the thick ice of Greenland, a discovery that offers ...