Generations of Times journalists have journeyed there with scientists. Their coverage traces humankind’s changing ...

Discover Point Nemo, Earth's most isolated location, where the nearest humans are often astronauts in space, not on land.

The megaberg A23a is most likely on its last legs, and has been captured turning blue because of meltwater. The iceberg was ...

There's evidence trapped in ancient ice that during warm periods millions of years ago, the ice-free Southern Ocean responded ...

Researchers in Antarctica think they might have been missing an essential part of the puzzle when it comes to melting ...

There's a long and contentious history of US interest in the Arctic island, but it seems to have entered a new phase under ...

About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The study focuses on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, a vast body of land ice in ...

It’s been over two weeks since the Sun has set on Germany’s Neumayer III base in the Antarctic, due to the Earth’s axial tilt at the extreme locale. In that eerie landscape, the 16-year-old base has ...

Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time human societies became increasingly settled. A new study published in Nature ...

The U.S. lacks sufficient capability at the Earth’s poles, with only a handful of operational icebreakers, including the two currently in the Arctic. President Trump has focused on the ICE Pact to ...

Antarctica's ice cores are like frozen diaries of Earth's past, preserving ancient air and climate clues. Most continuous records go back about 800,000 years. But in a region called the Allan Hills, a ...

Researchers warn Antarctica is undergoing abrupt changes that could trigger global consequences. Melting ice, collapsing ice shelves, and disrupted ocean circulation threaten sea levels, ecosystems, ...