Huge numbers of Emperor penguins in Antarctica may have died because of melting sea ice, experts fear. For the first time, scientists have used satellites to spot the places where ...

Scientists testing a popular climate theory in Antarctica found that melting glaciers deliver far less iron to the ocean than ...

PARIS: Emperor penguins shed all their feathers once a year, a precarious ritual that may have become deadly as climate ...

A closer look at Earth’s history shows that melting ice sheets temporarily increased stratification in the Southern Ocean.

Even with a sturdy ship and the help of satellite images, negotiating the frozen ocean requires a dose of humility before nature’s might.

Fresh evidence from sediment cores, satellite records, and deep-ocean sensors is converging on a troubling finding: meltwater ...

Polar bears in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas are spending dramatically more time on land than at any point in the modern ...

New research reveals that melting Arctic sea ice is pushing India’s monsoon rainfall westward, highlighting a powerful ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015, the frozen continent has lost sea ice similar to the size of Greenland.

A hidden ocean beneath Antarctica's largest ice shelf could be the continent's Achilles' heel — and a major driver of higher sea levels than scientists once expected. For the first time, researchers ...

The Arctic Ocean has always been a region that’s fascinated University of Delaware doctoral student Tianyu Zhou. While most of humanity lives in the world’s temperate zone, the polar ocean seems like ...

Greenland loses 200 billion tons of ice per year, lifting the land and lowering nearby sea levels even as global oceans ...