Earth’s eighth continent, Zealandia, has been largely unrecognized and “missing” from maps for 375 years. This mostly ...

A portion of the world's iciest, coldest continent is "greening" at a dramatic rate because of global warming, scientists announced in a recent study. In fact, the research showed that vegetation ...

The mind-blowing pace of retreat from the Hektoria Glacier is reminiscent of glacial retreats from the Ice Ages.

Explorer Colin O’Brady is surrounded by duffel bags and dozens of neatly labeled bags of dried ramen while sitting down for a ...

It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost ...

Three years ago, Eric Pōmaika‘i Gee was a student at Kealakehe High School invited when he invited polar explorer Robert Swan ...

The eastern section of Antarctica is buried beneath a thick ice sheet. Some scientists simply assumed that under that cold mass there was nothing more than a “frozen tectonic block,” a somewhat ...

The White Continent is the ultimate in cruise exploration, but these extraordinary ships push the boundaries even further by ...

A May 20 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a video of a man speaking about Antarctica. "Do you think these are the reasons why it’s illegal to go to the (sic) Antarctica?" reads the ...

The Years of Culture initiative, in collaboration with the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH) and with the support of the Division of ...

The Hektoria Glacier in Antarctica has lost half of its ice in roughly two months. Researchers say this lightning-fast ...