Comments: "Our National Geographic ship, Explorer, took us to the Antarctic Peninsula as well as below the Antarctic Circle. Zodiacs transported from ship to shore. While on the continent and on board ...

Kyiv-based studio Balbek Bureau has converted a defunct fuel tank into a depiction of a typical Ukrainian home at the country's research base in Antarctica. Named Home Memories, the installation at ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When paleontologist Thomas Mörs was peering into a microscope while sorting through tiny 40 million-year-old fossils unearthed on Seymour Island near the tip of the Antarctic ...

Antarctica is home to 90% of the world’s freshwater, trapped in the continent’s massive ice sheets—and the stability of much of that ice is seriously at risk from global warming. Two studies published ...

Historian Amanda Foreman searches the past for the origins of today’s world. Read previous columns here. There is a place on Earth that remains untouched by war, slavery or riots. Its inhabitants ...

Picture Antarctica—not as an endless expanse of snow and ice, but as a lush, green rainforest teeming with towering trees and mysterious plants. It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie, but ...

Alarming new research shows that the massive East Antarctica ice sheet is already a major contributor to sea-level rise. An aerial view of the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, in Antarctica, in 2017.