The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation to highlight the importance of ...

After 49 days and 1,100km, Borge Ousland and Vincent Colliard have completed the first unsupported north-to-south crossing of Ellesmere Island.

Big islands mean big opportunities to find somewhere magical, all for yourself. To those who think the world has been “done”, ...

If your dream is to explore the world, you might instinctively look into airfare or the most scenic road trips as your ...

University of British Columbia Polar Climate Scientist Anais Orsi shared her colleague's enthusiasm. "This is the first time such measurements have been done on the Canadian ice cap, and the results ...

Germany will send naval ships to the Arctic to counter increasing Russian military activity in the region, The Telegraph reported on June 30.

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

The mass of extremely warm air threw the freezing polar vortex out of balance, shoving it off its North Pole axis so forcefully that it in effect split in two, as if growing a pair of legs: one ...

By Tom Beal Arizona Daily Star Apr 29, 2015 Apr 29, 2015Updated Sep 29, 2015 ...

A recent study found that four large glacier basins in East Antarctica have experienced substantial ice growth over the past ...