Understanding what happens to Antarctica’s ice matters, because as it melts, sea levels rise, affecting lives and economies ...

A University of Houston scientist has teamed with international partners to examine how Antarctica's massive glaciers are ...

An international team of scientists and students, led by the Arctic University of Norway, and including chemists and ...

From the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by boat to the first to scale Everest, we’ve rounded up the most fabulous ...

An early Arctic blast is bringing frigid temperatures and the first significant snow of the season to the eastern U.S. Heavy lake-effect snow could bring up to 7 inches or more to upstate New York ...

An Arctic front is bringing the coldest air of the season to all 48 contiguous states this weekend. Temperatures are expected to drop below freezing across the country, from the northern Rockies to ...

The Department of the Interior announced Thursday that it was opening the entire 1.56 million acre Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leases. The decision is the ...

Explorers have dreamed of trade shortcuts across the Arctic Ocean for centuries. That shortcut was more easily imagined than achieved, thanks to Arctic weather, polar darkness, and near-constant sea ...

The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...

National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions has announced the full release of its 2027–28 deployment to all seven continents. Building on the heritage of Lindblad Expeditions and the expertise of ...

At a shipyard in Finland last month, workers cut the first steel for a new icebreaker ship. Over the next three years, about 10,000 tons of the metal will go into the hull before the vessel is carried ...