Figures released today show that 303,420 New Zealanders are directly or indirectly employed by the visitor economy. The Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) reiterates the important role of tourism as a ...

Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, ...

Researchers have discovered numerous tiny ice quakes occurring deep within Greenland's ice streams. These quakes contribute ...

LONDON, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- The world's glaciers have been melting faster than ever, causing almost 2 cm of sea level rise since the turn of the century as temperatures have risen due to human ...

Titled "The Age of A.I.," the show examines the technology’s 20th-century roots and spotlights its role in contemporary ...

Some satellite imagery layers span almost 30 years, providing a long term view of our dynamic planet. The underlying data is available for download, and Arctic and Antarctic views of several imagery ...

A subsidiary of Elon Musk's space technology company SpaceX, Starlink has launched a total of 8,000 internet-providing ...

A newborn iceberg called A-84 looks like a tiny ice cube as it tumbles along the Antarctic Peninsula in a fascinating new ...

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for the island of South Georgia. But climate change ...

Climate change is warming the air and ocean around Antarctica, leading to faster and more frequent calving of icebergs.

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and 2020, when one-fifth of its associated ice shelf broke off as massive ...