Antarctica has gained ice in recent years, despite increasing average global temperatures and climate change, a new study ...

That’s what it looks like from the surface, but there are hidden organisms and environments tucked inside and underneath the ...

Masters of fluid dynamics, the pink birds use everything from the shape of their feet to the chattering of their bills to vastly increase the number of shrimp they can catch.

Melting sea ice changes not only how much light enters the ocean, but also its color, disrupting marine photosynthesis and ...

The mysterious ‘ghost mountains’ – buried beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice – have puzzled scientists for decades.

With a message that is timely and essential, Neil Shubin delivers a compendium of both historical and very recent scientific ...

Without an ice layer on the ocean's surface, the light penetrating the waters changes, affecting the type of algae and ...

LEAP OF FAITHHundreds of emperor juveniles survived jumping into the sea from a 50-foot ice shelf last year ... a single pear-shaped egg early in the Antarctic winter when temperatures can ...

The Arctic is changing – and not just in the ways you might think. Once covered in thick, bright sea ice, the region is now ...

As global warming melts more sea ice in the polar regions, the light that enters the ocean is not just increasing in ...

Melting polar ice narrows the light spectrum underwater, favoring blue-tuned algae and disrupting the ocean food web.

A new study finds Antarctica gained mass for the first time in decades, reversing previous loss trends and briefly offsetting ...