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

As polar ice continues to melt at alarming rates, Arctic and Antarctic wildlife are facing unprecedented challenges. From ...

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

Did you know that the ice in Greenland and Antarctica is melting faster than ever? 🌍 This rapid change has serious implications for our planet’s future. Discover some surprising facts about this ...

A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest ... “It was exciting to see the ice age as we drilled deeper, and especially when we knew we were drilling ice older than the EPICA ...

Scientists have returned to East Antarctica this month to locate the oldest ice on Earth. The team is part of an EU-funded research consortium from 10 European countries whose aim is to drill an ...

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Suspended inside the ice are ancient air bubbles which scientists hope will help solve an enduring mystery about our planet's climate history. The European scientists worked over four Antarctic ...

Isotope analysis confirmed the age of the ice at more than 1.2 million ... by the earlier EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) campaign, which revealed that the concentrations ...

What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica. Working at temperatures of -35C, a team of scientists extracted a 2.8km-long ...