Earth’s continents aren’t as solid as they look. Scientists say parts of them are actually being peeled from below by deep ...

Antarctic marathon runners waiting for their flight back to civilisation flipped frustration into spectacle on December 15, ...

The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...

Far beneath the South Pacific, a continent the size of India has finally stepped out of the cartographic shadows. After ...

Red backed shrikes migrate using a fixed schedule, flying in stages with little variation, showing that genetics guide bird ...

As the first quarter of the 21st century draws to a close, Europe finds itself in the unenviable position of being the ...

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and ...

In China’s Taklimakan Desert, engineers are drilling a scientific well over six miles deep to explore the Earth’s interior ...

At 40, Uttarakhand’s Kavita Chand scaled Mount Vinson, Antarctica’s highest peak. From corporate life to extreme adventure, ...

We begin on the frozen Arctic Ocean. It's the end of winter, and as the sun returns, two polar bears meet on the ice. Usually ...

Eric Pōmaikaʻi Gee, a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa sophomore, Waikōloa native and graduate of Kealakehe High School on the ...

Routes between North America, Europe, and Asia routinely cross Greenland, northern Canada, or the Arctic Ocean. At the same time, scheduled commercial flights almost never cross Antarctica, even when ...