To find out, we analysed a 300kg section of Antarctic ice, dating from 40,000 to 80,000 years ago. The process is painstaking ...

New research has identified four members of the doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage, including the owner of a ...

Antarctica is being ravaged by a triple-whammy of climate chaos that has melted sea ice to record lows, a new study has ...

For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from rapid ice melting, but then sea ice began to decline dramatically.

For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming. Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the ...

Two patients with hantavirus and one suspected of infection were evacuated Wednesday from a cruise ship at the center of a ...

A radio-collared endangered Mexican wolf crossed from the U.S. into Mexico last month in New Mexico, a federal official said ...

Father Simon Bradbury weaves maritime stories into his sermons at his Harrogate church, drawn from his adventures as a Royal ...

Two new studies that relied on data from a fleet of diving robots show how climate change is altering ocean movements in ways ...

New data confirms what climate experts have long worried about: a warm mass of deep polar water has expanded toward ...

Oymyakon easily claims the title of one of the world’s chilliest permanently inhabited spots. Located on the left of the Indigirka River in Sakha, a republic in northeastern Russia, the town is home ...