Home to the world’s largest known Adélie Penguin population, the Antarctic islands recently gained protected-area status. Now ...

Arctic sea ice levels are crucial to Earth's climate because, without the ice reflecting sunlight, more heat energy goes into the oceans.

Arctic sea ice reached its lowest level ever recorded, statistically tying last year's record, a leading US climate ...

Cold-climate animals are remarkably adaptable creatures, specialized for survival in some of the harshest temperatures in our ...

Gondwana Ecotours has unveiled its latest adventure, "Antarctica: Penguins & Polar Frontiers," a small-group expedition ...

Taya Lulay, 6, of Michigan, North Dakota, looked a bit apprehensive but eager as she waited with her team to participate in ...

By Gina Mannarino Antarctica, known as the South Pole, is the coldest, windiest and most remote of the seven continents. Its ...

Antarctica, known as the South Pole, is the coldest, windiest and most remote of the seven continents. Its name comes from ...

Climate change has caused massive problems for animals living in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic. With ice sheets melting at ...

The warming world has disrupted the timing for plant and animal reproduction, and it’s usually bad news for species that depend on each other — like flowers blooming too early and pollina ...

The birds are breeding earlier, and more of their chicks are surviving. But researchers fear this success may not last ...

When scientists look at the effects of a warming planet on wildlife, the news is almost universally grim. Animals and plants ...