According to NASA, Lake Untersee is an underground body of water resting in the snow-capped peaks of East Antarctica. Hidden like a time capsule, it p.
NASA satellites detected a phytoplankton bloom around Antarctic iceberg A-23A as it melted, showing how icebergs can fertilize the ocean.
Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on record.
It was the year 1961 when two helicopter pilot lieutenants, Don Roe and John Hickey, were flying over the western end of ...
The Southern Ocean—vast, boundless waters surrounding Antarctica—plays an outsized role in global climate, largely thanks to tiny drifting organisms called plankton that soak up carbon. Reporting in ...
Residents of privately owned vessel The World are swapping the pied-à-terre for a pied-à-mer and a privileged life at sea. Just don’t call it cruising.
Antarctic sea ice coverage has likely rebounded this year, coming closer to its annual summer average after four years of extreme lows, US scientists said Monday.
Cruises are an often dreamt-about retirement goal, especially for travelers who finally have the time to trade quick getaways for immersive, weekslong voyages. Retirement can be the ideal season ...
Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...
Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new ...
A complicated interaction in which overlying ice, underlying rock, and an ancient lake bed form one of Earth’s most unsettling natural displays.
This footage of the penguins taking a surprise dive is a reminder that small events can show bigger problems in fragile places like Antarctica.