As great power competition expands into new domains and climate change alters global geography, the Arctic and Antarctica have become central pieces of the national security conversation. However, the ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has undertaken an operation to monitor two Chinese ships in the Arctic. Officials have monitored two ...

A new study uses boreholes drilled deep beneath Antarctic ice to investigate why the continent’s glaciers are accelerating.

The U.S. Coast Guard tracked a Chinese research vessel last week as it transited through the U.S. exclusive economic zone ...

Researchers have collected the first multi-year record of ocean conditions hidden beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, ...

But the episode—together with Trump’s repeated talk of incorporating Canada as “the 51st state”—has spurred NATO allies in the Arctic region to step up their security activities. Canada pledged $28 ...

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro monitored the Chinese research ship Xue Long as it transited north through the U.S. “exclusive ...

Millions of years before thick ice spread across the Northern Hemisphere, forces inside Earth lifted East Antarctica into a ...

New Antarctic research shows the deepest layer of the Southern Ocean is shrinking faster than scientists realized, with the ...

An autonomous underwater vehicle named LASSIE has spent 48 hours continuously monitoring the seafloor beneath Antarctica’s ...

Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that gap made ...

Nothing would remain but water. That is the way of ice. Fresh water poured into salt water, and each absorbed the other. Some observers thought they saw a bluer tinge in the ocean round about. In its ...