Under-sea mountains are key locations for predators -- with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows.

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

The formation, movement and melting of icebergs offer insights into some of the most extreme areas of the cryosphere, like Antarctica and Greenland.

Researchers identify a new mechanism that allows avalanches containing a mixture of rock and ice to travel very long distances.

On the windswept stretch of Koekohe Beach along New Zealand’s Otago coast, a group of massive, spherical rocks has been ...

The world’s largest iceberg, A23a – which recently broke free from a decades-long imprisonment in Antarctica – is currently ...

Greenland's ice sheet currently spans over 1.7 million square kilometers and is the largest freshwater reservoir in the ...

On Ellesmere Island in the Arctic, on one of the northernmost points of land in the world, sits a small permanent seismic ...