There is an “icebreaker gap” between Russia and the United States. For decades, the Soviet Union and now Russia have ...

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more accurate projections of sea level rise. The team modeled Antarctica's ...

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...

"Unexpected changes being observed in East Antarctica." Scientists observe concerning 'unexpected changes' in Antarctic ice ...

A parliamentary inquiry into the importance of Antarctica to Australia's national interests has made 13 recommendations, ...

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are both losing net mass to the ocean, mostly through increased melting from the atmosphere and the ocean. Scientists are increasingly alarmed at the changes ...

A new study focuses on improving global temperature data sets in light of uneven warming across the globe. To fill gaps in ...

Wind chills were expected to plummet overnight in Story County, with temperatures steadying out at -23 by 6 a.m. Thursday, ...

Quakes recorded for the first time inside Greenland's biggest frozen river, the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, suggest this ...