An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, ...

Norwegian Hege Victoria is nearing the Pole on record pace, and Ashkay Nanavati's full crossing attempt has ended end after a ...

The vast Antarctic Ice Sheet holds more than half of Earth's freshwater. In several places around the continent, the ice ...

The president-elect has said he covets Greenland for its size. He could be misinterpreting that based on a well-known mapping ...

A mere 90 million years ago, Antarctica was a radically different place. Instead of being a polar desert characterized by ...

Garrard wrote his great book about Antarctica, as a member of Robert Falcon Scott’s ultimately ill-fated expedition, he ...

Chile's president visited Antarctica, an attempt to draw attention to the renewed great power competition playing out on the ...

Large fire breaks out at oil refinery in Texas ...

Operation Highjump was an enormous U.S. military expedition to Antarctica that began in December 1946 and ultimately lasted ...

A blanket of snow and plenty of penguins sounds like a Christmas card - but for Dale Ellis, who is spending the festive season on a remote island in Antarctica, it's daily life. As the cruise ship ...

After being stuck for the second time in nearly four decades, the planet’s current-largest iceberg (A-23A) again floats free. Initially stuck in the Weddell Sea for decades, Iceberg A-23A was ...

We are interested to see if it will take the same route the other large icebergs that ... had been trapped for months. More Map made using data from the Antarctic Iceberg Tracking Database and ...