Wealthy adventurers and bucket listers rub shoulders with scientists looking to gather data as funding vanishes under the Trump administration.

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

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.

My grandparents are responsible for my love of travel. This visit to Antarctica felt the most meaningful of the trips they ...

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

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

By presidential directives stretching back decades, the United States maintains three research stations in Antarctica. Each summer, scientists descend on them keen to make discoveries, and each ...

Despite being overlooked down at the South Pole, Antarctica actually plays a large role in our world and you would notice if ...

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

The establishment of research stations in Antarctica and first crossing of the continent by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE) captured public attention. I recall being fascinated ...

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

A team of scientists set out on the research ship Falkor (too) in February for a 35-day expedition off the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of subantarctic islands. Their main goal was to use a ...