Glacial troughs in Antarctica promote mixing of warm and cold water, affecting global climate. A new study explores whether ...

A few years back, a particularly imaginative young boy came into Georgina Berg’s kindergarten class in Churchill, Canada, ...

When sea ice forms later, the communities of tiny algae that live within it change too. Detecting these early signals now ...

Villagers in Blatten, Switzerland, were evacuated earlier this month after authorities warned a nearby glacier was on the ...

An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is ...

Scientists studying glaciers in West Antarctica observed a strange phenomenon dubbed "ice piracy." This occurs when one ...

Melting sea ice is a global problem with far-reaching consequences. As the Arctic and Antarctic lose ice faster than expected ...

This story is part of the National Geographic 33. A pioneer of big-mountain snowboarding, Jeremy Jones watched as helicopters made remote backcountry runs suddenly reachable, enabling access to ...

Trees began to quake, monkeys shrieked, and birds fled skyward. Deep in the heart of Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Selah Abong’o froze, convinced she was about to encounter something out of ...

A new study based on two decades of data shows what happens in an ocean ecosystem without great white sharks. Great white sharks, like this one pictured in 2014, were once common residents in the ...

More than a decade after the viral trend first got its start, thousands of people are dusting off their buckets and dumping ice water on their heads all over again—but this time, for mental health.

To get underwater images like this one of a polar bear moving from melting sea ice onto dry ... appears in the September 2022 issue of National Geographic magazine.