Only a few expedition cruise companies offer trips with an opportunity to ski in Antarctica. Here's what it's like to see a ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

South Georgia is a resurrected wonderland of Southern Ocean fauna after the ravages of the sealing and whaling eras. Today it ...

The great ice streams of the Antarctic and Greenland are like frozen rivers, carrying ice from the massive inland ice sheets ...

According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, scientists have used satellite imagery to document and chronicle the collapse of the Conger-Glenzer ice shelf.

“It’s amazing to do the math and try to remember what was happening in the world back in 1825, when those snowflakes were ...