If you’ve been following Miles O’Brien’s reports from Antarctica, you know he’s with an international group of researchers ...

The flow of ice at Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica has sped up dramatically due to the disintegration of the ice shelf in front of it, and this could lead to faster sea level rise ...

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

Launched on Dec. 20, it would travel for the next 23 days on a NASA balloon along the very highest reaches of the atmosphere, ...

More than 50 skuas in Antarctica died from the high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the summers of 2023 and 2024, ...

Germany and New Zealand are stepping up cooperation in Antarctica as a signal against future ambitions by major global players. "We are jointly committed to ensuring that the continent remains a place ...

In one of the most remote and harsh environments on Earth, three penguin species are telling a story that’s about much more ...

Scientists studying ancient ocean sediments discovered a surprising link between the shrinking of West Antarctica’s ice and ...

Scientists lost their instruments within Antarctica’s most dangerously unstable glacier, though not before getting a glimpse ...

The U.S. Coast Guard dispatched its most powerful ship and heaviest icebreaker to help set free an Australian-owned cruise ...

The first icefish was discovered in 1927, swimming in the frigid waters of the southernmost extreme of the Earth, the ...

A U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker assisted an Antarctica cruise ship after shifting pack ice slowed its voyage, allowing it to ...