Armed with lab equipment and two months of food and clothes, around 60 researchers boarded the RSV Nuyina icebreaker ship for ...

During Antarctica’s warm season, the sleek Norwegian passenger ship known as the MS Fridtjof Nansen departs regularly from ...

As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

Battered by Antarctic storms in the southern Andes at the very tip of Chile, I met my biggest mental outdoor challenge yet on ...

Icebergs as large as cities, potentially tens of kilometres wide, once roved the coasts of the UK, according to scientists.

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, contributing approximately 0.07 mm per year to global sea-level rise. A study ...

These points of no return are specific moments when the planet has warmed so much that certain effects become irreversible.

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, ...

The research, done by the universities of Exeter and Hamburg, analysed several tipping points, which includes the collapse of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and loss of mountain glaciers. The team ...

“As ice volume was greatly reduced, it caused a huge motion in Earth’s crust,” Yuan said in a statement. “Scientists knew ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...

These points of no return are specific moments when the planet has warmed so much that certain effects become irreversible.