Whenever large icebergs detach from Antarctica, the international community are understandably alarmed. Not only is this ...

Scientists from Rutgers University-New Brunswick discovered that mercury pollution affects even the distant regions of ...

The NSF is beginning an operational retreat from Antarctica. Both the aging U.S. facilities and the research itself are ...

Today, it stands as a nature reserve devoted to peace and scientific research. "But Antarctica is not an apolitical human paradise with untouched nature—a sort of continent for scientific ...

In the frigid waters originally hidden below, scientists discovered what appear to be new species of crustaceans, fish and other life forms.

NOAA research shows it would take the average tree more than 1500 years to sequester the amount of carbon dioxide a whale can ...

A giant hole has appeared in the sea ice of Antarctica and it's as big as Switzerland. The sea in Antarctica usually freezes ...

Antarctica, once seen as a pristine wilderness, has trouble brewing in its waters. As researchers, tourists and military ...

The program took 34 U.S. and Canadian instructors to the South Pole in December to help them educate students about the ...

Fairuz Ishraque, a Bangladeshi scientist, recently journeyed to the icy continent of Antarctica, where he spent 69 days conducting research in the Allan Hills, a notable group of hills in the region.

Almost a century after the colossal squid was first discovered, a juvenile was filmed and photographed in its natural habitat ...