Antarctica

Global warming could affect your coffee buzz, Antarctic ice is fast disappearing, and cats in Wyoming are catching the bubonic plague.

NASA satellites are offering new insights into how glaciers in Antarctica and Asia are responding to warmer temperatures.

New research finds that our response to a projected temperature rise differs depending on the scale we use.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?