As the oceans warm, their capacity to melt ice shelves and glaciers increases. Scientists rely on a network of oceanic ...

Argo floats are free-floating robotic oceanographic instruments. As they drift, they rise and fall through the ocean to ...

Longyearbyen, Norway, and Ushuaia, Argentina, offer travelers the opportunity to see unspoiled landscapes, rare wildlife, and vast glacial ice—along with a spirit of endurance and camaraderie.

Swirling underwater eddies are aggressively melting two Antarctic glaciers, a recent study found, including the one that could raise sea levels by multiple feet.

New research reveals how the speed of ocean currents and the shape of the seabed influence the amount of heat flowing ...

There could be an irreversible retreat of parts of the ice sheets, raising sea levels much faster than currently planned.

And so, the Argo float’s trip under the ice turned out to be an incredibly lucky accident. During an eight-month period, the ...

A lone robotic float has just achieved something no human, ship, or sensor array has ever managed. For two-and-a-half years, ...

"I couldn’t imagine a more perfect or romantic place to propose than at the literal ends of the Earth," bride-to-be Allegra ...