Antarctica

The study suggests an important ice shelf may be being bathed in warm water.

Russia is deploying troops and testing missiles in the polar region, poised to commandeer its massive energy reserves

The melt rate has tripled in just the past 10 years.

In western Antartica, an increase in glacial collisions is destroying ecological diversity

Those who live on coastlines—or their children and their children's children, more accurately—will have to contend with an unprecedented rise in sea levels

The method could provide clues to the Earth's climate in the past and predict future climate patterns