USCGC Polar Star, the service's only heavy icebreaker, at Coast Guard Base Seattle on Nov. 13, 2025. The ship is preparing to ...

A new map of Antarctica’s seafloor reveals a vast and previously overlooked network of 332 submarine canyons, some plunging ...

Lynn Police respond to a non-life-threatening shooting near Hood Elementary School. No ongoing threat to the community.

Temperature records from measurements of oxygen isotopes in the ice reveal that this area experienced a gradual, long-term ...

The ice sheets in East Antarctica go through a process known as basal melting, which significantly impacts sea-level rise.

A new study of Antarctic ice cores published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has extended our record ...

Dr. Carl Forkner was into his third year as a special education teacher at Monmouth High School in Illinois when he took a sharp detour that led him on a ...

Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...

A team of researchers, including those from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has discovered the oldest directly ...

Warm deep water driven by ancient meltwater feedbacks caused rapid ice-shelf collapse in East Antarctica 9,000 years ago. The ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old. The goal of the French duo is to better ...