The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater ...

Antarctic sea ice is more than just a platform for penguins. The sea ice's high reflectivity influences the whole Earth's ...

About 4,000 scientists travel around the vast, ice-covered continent of Antarctica each year to look at topics ranging from climate change to the search for dark matter, and prior to 2007, they were ...

Many Antarctic seabed animals grow slowly in the same place over centuries, making them vulnerable to chains. Dr Watson said anchor chains probably had the second biggest impact to the sea floor ...

Scientists Found a Massive Hole In Antarctica in 2016 And Now, They've Finally Discovered What Caused It During the winters ...

Map of Antarctica showing current ice surface (a), land shape beneath the ice (b), and climate changes over time from ocean fossils (c). Black lines mark where ice sits on land; light areas are on ...

The city of Toronto is currently halfway through a yearlong study of whether it should pass a bylaw requiring landlords to keep indoor temperatures below a certain level.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow acknowledged “serious gaps” in the city’s heat relief strategy and apologized for untimely pool closures, saying “we must do better.” ...

Scientists are trying to solve a decade-long mystery by determining the identity of anomalous signals detected from below ice in Antarctica.

Professor Lloyd Peck of the British Antarctic Survey says warming seas are putting polar ecosystems at serious risk, with lasting consequences. “If the Earth warms up, the first places to ...