Oxygen isotopes data enable researchers to look far back into the geologic past and reconstruct the climate of the past. In ...

Shaking caused by quakes may cause ocean floor vents to release more nutrients, triggering blooms in plant-like organisms ...

Strip away Antarctica’s ice and the familiar white disc at the bottom of the map dissolves into something far stranger: a ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

After nearly a century of exploring the continent, and sometimes being food, dogs were kicked out of Antarctica via an ...

The claim: 'Man' can't advance more than 500 kilometers past Antarctic 'ice wall' A Dec. 13 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a picture of a research vessel positioned near a tall, sheer ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

Vicki Koterba is preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Antarctica, heading south on a Smithsonian-sponsored educational ...

Planes crossing the top of the world have become so normal that most people barely notice them anymore. Even so, hardly any ...