Feb. 17’s “ring of fire” annular solar eclipse was imaged from one of the only places to see it — a research station in Antarctica — from where the sun transformed into a perfect “ring of fire” for ...

Tasmania's role as Australia's Antarctic gateway took centre stage this week as representatives from all three levels of ...

For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier stunned scientists by retreating eight kilometers in just two months, with nearly half of it ...

The United States listed emperor penguins as an endangered species in 2022 because multiple studies project large population ...

A shifting of Earth’s poles, referred to as ‘True Polar Wander,” combined with the sinking of tectonic plates during the Cenozoic Era, altered the planet’s interior, with rising hot mantle material ...

Researchers reporting in Nature Climate Change conclude that several Antarctic ice drainage basins may already be committed ...

Higher emissions could trigger collapsing ice shelves and rising sea levels in Antarctica, while lower emissions limit ...

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout ...

If Northern Hemisphere snow cover keeps reaching the same general highs and lows year after year, that reinforces climate stability. If snow cover instead changes over the long term, the change nudges ...

The geoid (the surface of equal gravitational potential of a hypothetical ocean at rest) serves as the classical reference ...

Researchers filmed a 10-to-13-foot sleeper shark off the South Shetland Islands, in what may be the first recording of the ...