Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...

Social media posts sharing a graphic comparing sea ice levels in the Antarctic on the same date 45 years apart misrepresent ...

The Icy Wilderness Under Threat The Arctic and Antarctic are two of the most unique and fragile ecosystems on our planet.

A Spanish scientific expedition has discovered columns of gas emerging from the seabed. Geologists also warn about the ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to ...

Voyage planning,  pollution control, and underwater noise reduction were among the key topics discussed at the 2025 Polar ...

Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called ...