For Greenland’s ice sheet, it was another bad year
Greenland’s ice sheet has seen worse melting seasons than it did this year, but it has been a very long time since it has seen a good year
Greenland’s ice sheet has seen worse melting seasons than it did this year, but it has been a very long time since it has seen a good year
The Pine Island Ice Shelf is likely to dissolve much faster than previously thought due to massive calving, a new BAS study shows.
On the sub-Antarctic Crozet Archipelago, boldly performing wandering albatross males get farther and are less divorced than shy males.
Pre-historic Alaska appears to have experienced seasonal floods capable of overwhelming a grown dinosaur
Using satellite imagery and drone imagery, researchers can develop a program that automatically detects seals on satellite images and counts them.
An Arctic freshwater lake between glacial ice and seawater hosts a unique community of organisms – but for how much longer? Climate change threatens the lake.
One of America’s leading sources of science funding is putting artists and teachers where the sun doesn’t shine (for half of the year)
Global warming won’t mean the end of algae in Canada’s Arctic, but it will change the species found there
British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and RSPB recruit albatross detectives to help find migratory albatrosses in satellite imagery from space.
The colony in Atka Bay where microplastics have not yet accumulated in the food web is located far from regions of high human activity.
The new Mertz Fellowship Program aims to build long-term scientific collaboration by supporting early-career researchers.
Emperor penguin chicks near Germany’s Neumayer III Station migrate up to 600 km farther north than previously thought.
Weddell seals and certain Antarctic fish have developed unique genetic adaptations that allow them to live in the cold of Antarctica.
The 12-member crew of the French-Italian research station Concordia woke up in early August to a most welcome sight: sunrise after four months of darkness.
Kongsbreen, one of the large glaciers on the west coast of Svalbard, has receded by 800 meters within six weeks after massive calvings.
Scientists found structures in the ocean around Iceland that resemble the ancient surface of Mars billions of years ago. Was Mars once a habitable planet?
A research team has produced a scientifically based ranking of the largest glaciers, showing that the Antarctic Peninsula is the record holder.
A group of researchers has sampled an ice core in the Transantarctic Mountains that could be up to 5 million years old.
Researchers working with tiger sharks off Belize have spotted a sleeper shark that was only known from cold regions.
New Zealand researchers have discovered a never-before-seen ecosystem underneath the Larsen Ice Shelf at a depth of 500 meters.
Young lumpfish, found in the Arctic waters between Svalbard and Nunavut, glow neon green in the dark. This is what an Irish-British research group has found out.
Synthetic pollutants have been found in Antarctic snow since the late 1950s and continue to accumulate there.
The polar bears’ icy habitat is diminishing and they are increasingly staying away from their usual food sources for extended periods of time. This has implications for their diet.
A small black and white bird, the oystercatcher, is the national bird of the Faroe Islands and the bird shows that it is worth spending the summer far in the north.