The Coast Guard is experiencing an unprecedented and much-needed boost, with expanded reach in the Arctic and Indo-Pacific.

If you hear that the polar vortex is coming, you should expect to experience a lot of cold. CLEVELAND — The temperature ...

Neumayer III Antarctic station was built on 16 hydraulic stilts that can lift the 20,000-square-foot facility over the ...

The Coast Guard cutter Polar Star departed Seattle, Nov. 27, commencing its 29th deployment to Antarctica in support of ...

As the U.S. Coast Guard prepares to revitalize its icebreaking fleet, the Polar Star remains the only U.S. vessel capable of ...

A new study reveals the shocking possibility that the Southern Ocean around Antarctica may release a century-long burst of ...

A new study by the University of Colorado Boulder adds to growing concerns that one of the Rocky Mountains’ most iconic ...

For most of the modern era, the Arc­tic barely registered in the strate­gic imagination of the great pow­ers. It was too cold, too distant, and too inhospitable to matter. Policymak­ers treated it as ...

Antarctica has long been treated as a frozen constant, a white backdrop to the planet’s climate drama rather than its main ...

This is not good news for the future of our planet.

Researchers bundled in down jackets toiled around the clock in these snowy tunnels as a massive drill rig churned downward to extract core samples and the secrets they contain from the deepest ...

Minerals from a cave in Greenland reveal that the Arctic was warm and had no permafrost, with CO₂ levels similar to today's.