Greg Yaghmai is about to embark on an unprecedented challenge: running seven marathons on seven continents in just seven days.

A Canadian freighter with 17 people on board got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie while departing Buffalo, according to the Coast Guard, which arrived with icebreaking equipment Thursday to begin freeing ...

The trillion-ton slab of ice named A23a could slam into South Georgia Island and get stuck or be guided around it by currents.

Antarctica is not truly home to anyone, as far as we know, but between 1,000 and 10,000 hardy workers can be stationed there, depending on the season, while around 40,000 tourists come and go each ...

For the first time, researchers have found oceans help cool global temperatures more than anyone previously thought. Here's ...

Like the glaciers that feed them, ice shelves are immense. Yet the ocean processes that control basal melting, and the fate ...

That will solve this once and for all,” Will Duffy said. “We need to go to Antarctica. I need to take a flat-Earther or two ...

An international group of researchers excavated the ice at Little Dome C Field Camp in Antarctica, located 10,607 feet (3,233 ...

An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice they say is at least 1 ...

An ice core drilled by a research team is displayed at Little Dome C field base in eastern Antarctica, during the cutting phase on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (PNRA/IPEV Beyond Epica via AP) ...

As BBC News filmed with scientists in the Antarctic Peninsula, one whale used its four-metre-long fin to sweep a net of bubbles around its prey and trap them, known as "bubble-netting".