A photographer has captured the first-ever images of a rare and adorable Ross seal swimming in the icy waters of Antarctica.

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Drilling through 500 feet of floating ice into the Antarctic Ocean floor, climate scientists have retrieved a rare 23-million-year record of sediments that helps demonstrate why the planet’s southern ice shield could determine the fate of distant low-lying coastal areas. The layers of rock, silt and fossils are like pages in a book of geological […]

Each year for millennia, emperor penguins have molted on coastal sea ice that remained stable until late summer—a haven during a span of several weeks when it’s dangerous for the mostly aquatic birds to enter the ocean to feed because they are regrowing their waterproof feathers. But as overall Antarctic sea ice extent dwindled to […]