A robotic ocean float was lost under the Antarctic ice for eight months, but it miraculously reappeared, bearing some ...

Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge about what happens after the period of ...

Tom Hunt's attempt to break Vincent Colliard's blistering Hercules Inlet to South Pole speed record has come up short by ...

Krill – the small, shrimp-like crustacean – is a keystone species. It underpins the marine ecosystem of the Southern ...

The Shirase began transferring fuel, observation equipment and other supplies to the research base on Saturday night.

New findings about ocean processes in the Antarctic show melting ice shelves and changes to sea ice could have catastrophic ...

A short ocean video has suddenly caught everyone’s attention online. People are sharing it again and again because it shows a ...

The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...

Japan's Antarctic research vessel Shirase carved its way through sea ice and reached a fast ice berthing point about 1,700 meters off Japan's Showa Station at 12:44 p.m. on Saturday. The waters around ...

The psychologist Justin Gregg specialises in dolphin social cognition. He introduces his new book, Humanish, a witty and provocative look at anthropomorphism — our habit of seeing human traits in ...

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

Scientists are racing to gather crucial population data on penguins and other seabirds, ahead of the expected arrival of ...