Researchers recently discovered that a Antarctic “danger zone” was actually an island — and have now mapped it for the first ...

A dirty-looking “iceberg” in the Weddell Sea turned out to be something fixed, rocky, and missing from available charts. When ...

Beneath nearly two kilometres of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, locked away since the continent froze over at least 34 million years ago, scientists have found something that changes the way ...

The Arctic Ocean may have crossed a dangerous tipping point. Scientists say the rapid disappearance of sea ice is triggering ...

An irreversible shift in the chemical makeup of the Arctic Ocean driven by climate change is disrupting the region's food ...

Our solar system is currently passing through the Local Interstellar Cloud, a region of highly diluted gas and dust between ...

A team of polar researchers has unexpectedly discovered a previously unmapped island in Antarctica’s remote Weddell Sea after ...

An irreversible shift in the chemical make-up of the Arctic Ocean driven by climate change is disrupting the region’s food chain, a study suggests.

The island had only been marked as a vague “danger zone” before scientists aboard an icebreaker got close enough to map it.

Details of how the shipping containers ended up on a giant iceberg have been revealed in one of the more unusual reports ...