ANN ARBOR — Amy and Tom Knutilla recently traveled to their seventh continent in a journey that was the first of its kind.

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the ...

Scotland, too, can stay relatively cool during the summer. “It's not snow in the summer, but it's definitely chilly, especially some of the outer islands, like the Orkneys and the Hebrides and the ...

Jacob Chalif is part of a U.S. National Science Foundation project collecting some of the world’s oldest ice — dating back as many as a million years or more — for a Dartmouth College study on climate ...

Antarctica or the Arctic? Sue Halliwell compares both places as polar travel destinations. They may look alike, but as travel ...

Argentina launched this week its Antarctica Summer Campaign 2018/19. The re furbished icebreaker is scheduled to develop an intense scientific activity, supply Argentina's bases and stations and ...

As does the sight of an enormous Boeing 787 Dreamliner typically used for international long-haul flights parked at the end ...

Over time, Antarctica may evolve from a cold desert reminiscent of the Martian landscape to an ecosystem akin to Arctic ...

Antarctica’s ice shelves are rapidly thinning due to warm water flowing beneath them, a process accelerated by decreasing sea ...

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has achieved a historic milestone this week, by ...

A group of 20 scientists from New Zealand - and abroad - are about to head to the bottom of the world to study the impacts of ...

Ice core analyses from Greenland and Antarctica reveal high levels of sulfur from a massive volcanic eruption approximately 4 ...