A saildrone is about to embark on an unusual 22,000 km circumnavigation of Antarctica. I featured the story in a recent weekly geography quiz, students were fascinated by the journey, so I put ...

Greenland and Antarctica lost 11.3 trillion tons of ice Findings based on satellite data spanning 1979 to 2023 This added 1.24 inches (3.14 cm) to global sea levels Study done by international team of ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Since 2021, East Antarctica has ...

DK Metcalf says of Antarctica: “I think there is another civilization inside of Earth.” Joe Sargent / Getty Images Read our exclusive DK Metcalf interview with Jonathan Jones. DK Metcalf loves ...

East Antarctica gained an astonishing 695 billion tons of ice between 2021 and 2023, temporarily slowing Antarctica’s long-term decline. Researchers found that warming thousands of miles away in the ...

A US Air Force flight bound for Antarctica returned to New Zealand after a warning about “potentially hazardous” space activity, according to New Zealand authorities. A spokesperson for New Zealand’s ...

A US expeditioner in Antarctica was rescued last month in a daring mid-winter medical evacuation by an Australian aviation team in the middle of crippling temperatures and near pitch-black conditions.

Antarctica’s Blood Falls looks exactly like what the feature’s name suggests. But despite appearing to bleed out for millions of years, its waters are actually home to an array of microscopic life.

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Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another 25 million years for ice to cover the Arctic, and the question of how the ...

The first dinosaur fossil found on the Antarctic continent has been described scientifically. The fossil, a vertebra, was found on a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) expedition in 1985 but has only ...

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