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

OPERATION: HIGHJUMP Operation Highjump commenced in August 1946. It was the largest, most heavily armed naval task force ever ...

Meteorologist Chase Cain traveled to Antarctica to explore how ecotourism could make a difference in funding research.

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 ...

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

Renowned for their incredible range of subspecies and unique evolutionary adaptations, the Galapagos Islands are sometimes referred to as a ‘living laboratory of evolution’ because of their isolated ...

Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, cascading down underwater cliffs to the ocean floor thousands of meters below.

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...