Antarctica

A glacier in Antarctica gets a new name and, once more, environmental regulations are under threat.

• By Rebecca Worby

Antarctica's ice is melting faster, Guatemala slowly recovers from a volcano eruption, and the San Francisco mayoral race makes history.

• By Rebecca Worby

Commercial fishing for the tiny crustacean has increased in recent years to supply growing demand for nutritional supplements.

• By Erica Cirino

The iceberg has a volume twice that of Lake Erie and weighs more than a trillion metric tons.

• By Francie Diep

Warming oceans and intensifying winds are combining to speed decay of coastal ice.

• By Bob Berwyn

A new study of the ancient Laurentide Ice Sheet suggests that Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets may not accelerate as quickly as previously thought.

• By Nathan Collins

Melting icebergs leave behind a trail of nutrients that seeds the growth of tiny, carbon-sequestering marine organisms.

• By Kate Wheeling

At COP21, the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative makes a passionate case for immediate action to preserve the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica.

• By Ted Scheinman

In Antarctica, the dismal future of global wilderness is no excuse for misanthropic nihilism.

• By Daniel Solomon

For years, the National Science Foundation has been sending professional creatives to the icy south in an attempt to promote understanding of the least-explored land on Earth. Is it working?

• By Jillian Hinchliffe