A Royal Navy ship has been given a Freedom of the City honour by a city that is about 50 miles from the nearest bit of coast.

Climate scientists in the United States are to be cut off from satellite data measuring the amount of sea ice — a sensitive ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

By Daria Hatton MacDonald , University of Tasmania And Elizabeth Leane, University of Tasmania - The number of tourists ...

A shocking discovery of ancient human remains on Antarctica's Yámana Beach raises tantalizing questions about early human ...

For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

Arctic sea ice, not a thick ice shelf like what we observe in Antarctic today (above), shaped the far north for 750,000 years. Photo credit: Matthias Forwick.

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Join the daring journey of the Antarctic Snow Cruiser, a massive machine built for a bold polar mission. Discover how this ...

President Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill earmarks more than $8.6 billion to increase the U.S. Coast Guard ...