Cold Temperatures for an Insect . Like hibernating bears, many insects slow their bodily processes during the tough winter ...

Sandwiched between the freezing cold of Earth’s coldest continent and the warmth of its southernmost active volcano, the ...

Melting ice is diluting the ocean, disrupting the vital ocean current. Taimoor Sohail and Bishakhdatta Gayen report ...

Antarctica’s cold helps to regulate Earth’s atmosphere and the temperature of the oceans while the ice sheet locks up water that would otherwise dangerously increase world sea levels.

Under the Antarctica, Germany recently found "something" that could replace all of the world's fuels. Generating solar ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current acts as a kind of “ocean conveyor belt” shifting immense columns of water through the ...

Part of the system that pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe is at risk. Climate change could slow the Antarctic ...

Now researchers at Japan’s Osaka University have uncovered the physiological mechanism behind Belgica antarctica’s mastery of the cold — one that’s never been observed in any other species. Cold ...