About two-thirds of Antarctic tourists land on the continent. The visitors can threaten fragile ecosystems by: Even when ...

Of course, Antarctic tourism represents only a tiny fraction of overall emissions. However, the industry has a moral ...

New research has, for the first time, tracked ice shelf, sea ice and ocean swell wave conditions over multiple years in the ...

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

Scientists have been struggling to understand why Antarctic sea ice has declined rapidly and continues to decline. Read more ...

The Himalayan Mountains are home to the highest peak in Mount Everest at 29,029 feet, but also to the third largest deposit of ice and snow in the world, after Antarctica and the Arctic. Now the ...

A team of scientists has uncovered a surprising discovery beneath a slowly retreating Antarctic glacier, challenging what we ...

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater near the surface could help explain some of the decrease in Antarctic sea ...

Glaciers are flowing rivers of ice, formed when snowfall compresses into a solid sheet. Over the span of hundreds of years, ...

The research letter says glaciers in both regions lost mass twice as fast as they did between 2010 and 2020. Menounos says ...