Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it supported lush forests.

Warming ocean waters are melting Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf at accelerating rates, highlighting a climate-driven trend with ...

Most of the expeditions are still waiting to begin, but the two solo crossings are in progress. Equipment problems are ...

The atmosphere is constantly changing. Its composition has varied regularly over the course of the planet's climatic epochs, ...

Emperor penguins, known as the heaviest and tallest of all penguins, in wild nature can only be found in Antarctica where ...

Thawing ice, from the high peaks to the poles, is producing extraordinarily expensive floods, infrastructure damage and ...

When composer Mason Bates approached Michael Chabon about turning his novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” into ...

Marine biologist James McClintock and Rev. John Burrus will share insights from Antarctica in a free lecture this Thursday at ...

Believe it or not, you're standing in West Antarctica. Scientists in Germany and the UK have now discovered amber there for ...

Silversea has launched its 2024/2025 Antarctica season, featuring Silver Endeavour on an 18-day voyage to South Georgia, the ...

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a ...

Its cheapest seven-day voyage, a roundtrip Long Beach, California, to Mexico itinerary, starts at about $510 per person — ...