Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said on Wednesday that India is taking active interest in the polar regions of Arctic and Antarctic as he chaired a meeting of Parliament’s Standing Committee on External ...

I am fascinated by both Antarctic and Arctic exploration; no where else on Earth wants humans dead quite like our planet’s poles, but folks still manage to eek out an existence in both places.

The initial period of Antarctic exploration was known (rather grandly) as the Heroic Age. This was the time in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when iconic explorers like Ernest Shackleton ...

As the Defense Department prepares to release its new Arctic strategy, Pentagon planners should expand their perspective to the opposite pole: Antarctica, whose resources, geostrategic location ...

Antarctic research output is declining globally, with publication numbers peaking in 2021 and falling since, despite increasing environmental threats such as ice loss, sea level rise, and ...

On March 5, 2025, Antarctic sea ice volume reached its minimum, dropping to just 247 cubic miles (1,030 km3), it also revealed. Worryingly, this marks a 56 per cent decrease from the long-term ...

Historically a leader in Antarctic exploration and science, America today finds itself at a crossroads, with its response — or lack thereof — to these challenges shaping the future of its ...

These high temperatures impacted the global sea ice extent, which includes both the Arctic, where sea ice is currently near its annual maximum, and the Antarctic. The satellite record for both ...

A Talk by Lisa Bloom. In Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the ways artists, filmmakers, and activists engaged with the Arctic and Antarctic to represent our current ...

However, the findings are a snapshot of Antarctic ice shelves which, over a longer period, have lost mass, the study’s lead author said. The ice shelf data also does not reflect the changes in ...

World's largest iceberg on the move after dislodging from ocean floor 04:09. The world's biggest iceberg — three time the size of New York City — could drift toward a remote island where a ...