Antarctica once teemed with forest life, a new study finds. But the world's seas and oceans looked different during one of ...

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

Planes routinely fly over the Arctic region, heading from one continent to another, but it's rare for one to fly over ...

Spanish scientists led by Professor Jesús Ruiz Fernández of the University of Oviedo have found traces of human waste, ...

Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend ...

Antarctica’s ice caps have been shaping the ocean for millions of years, but recent discoveries reveal icebergs existed even ...

Will McGough thought he’d scatter his father’s ashes in Antarctica for a special tribute. But once there, he learned that wouldn’t work as planned in this special, delicate environment.

What began as Shackleton’s ambitious plan to be the first to traverse the Antarctic continent instead became one of the most ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent might have been just that for the early ancestors of today’s living ...

Shocking images of mass tourism in the pristine environment have Antarctic Treaty countries considering a tax for visitors, ...

Forgive me for starting with superlatives, but I have no choice. I’m not the first. In 1911, Roald Amundsen, the first explorer to reach the South Pole, wrote that the Queen Maud Range in ...