"Whatever the chain of events, only those remains here mentioned have been found up to this day," Daniel Torres Navarro ...

The ocean around Antarctica is changing in unexpected ways. Since 2015, sea ice surrounding the frozen continent has been ...

The agency is cutting animal testing of chemicals. Some scientists are concerned, but in the meantime the rats (and zebra ...

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...

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

The dramatic loss of sea ice around Antarctica has occurred with the re-emergence of the Maud Rise polynya in the Weddell Sea ...

A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting saltier, and sea ice is melting at record speed, enough to match the size ...

Scientists were shocked to encounter a live Gonatus antarcticus, a squid species only known from dead specimens, in the ...

Scientists are questioning whether a ‘regime shift’ to a new state of diminished Antarctic sea-ice coverage is underway, due ...

The melting of Antarctica's sea ice has had severe consequences for the Southern Ocean already, from the loss of its habitats ...

A fresh set of numbers is changing what scientists thought happens when a city‑sized slab of ice dissolves into the sea. The ...