In one of Alaska’s most remote fjords, a small crew sails through icy waters before launching paddleboards toward a massive ...

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

October 16 marked the arrival of the first aircraft at Rothera Research Station and the departure of the Falklands-flagged ...

Both Antarctica and Greenland are very large, very cold and home to plenty of frozen territory. But there are certain other ...

For three days I had been watching for caribou from behind a spruce-tree lookout not far from my cabin on Savage River, on ...

The cloudy, sediment-laden meltwater from glaciers is a key source of nutrients for ocean life, but a new study suggests that ...

Glaciers San Rafael and San Quintin have retreated significantly since 1987, showing the impact of global warming on Earth's ...

Sara Francis/US Coast Guard The NASA NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) and NOAA@NSIDC archive and distribute ...

The loss of permafrost, a major natural carbon sink, is another huge concern. The study's lead author, Thomas Shaw, dismissed ...

When Debbie Clarke Moderow was running the Iditarod — the 1,100-mile sled dog race through Alaska’s frozen interior — she had a moment.