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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As global temperatures rise, the ecology of Antarctica is already changing, but Earth's climate would have to change ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is taking aim at wide swaths of the federal government, which could mean cuts ...

How a former boxer from England underwent as brutal a battering of the body and circadian rhythm as one person can give ...