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Ethan Guo, a 19-year-old aviator from Memphis, was detained and charged with submitting a false flight plan before traversing ...
Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...
In 1957, a team of Kiwis led by Sir Edmund Hillary undertook an extraordinary journey across Antarctica as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, famously utilizing three small Ferguson ...
The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...
A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...
An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the ...
Research involving the University of Liverpool has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica. In ...
An ancient landscape, likely once home to rivers and forests, has been found beneath a mile of ice in Antarctica. The area, untouched for more than 34 million years, covers around 12,000 square miles ...
Long before European colonizers sighted the continent, legendary explorer Hui Te Rangiora may have seen Antarctica.
Discover why Antarctica no longer has lush forests with giant ferns and how ancient fires fueled intense volcanic activity.