The report did not explain why the penguin was on the chopper, but many people on social media jokingly assumed it was on a ...

Sharpe was joined by Maya Thomas of Virginia Institute of Marine Science and Abby Tomita of Oregon State University. The ...

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been ...

About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an ...

The Scenic Eclipse is one of only a few Antarctic vessels to carry a submarine. The submarine—the Scenic Neptune —can carry up to six passengers per dive. The sub can go as far down as 1,000 feet and ...

Reports of assault were first reported last weekend by South Africa’s Sunday Times newspaper, which claimed to have seen a ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds, Bill Nye, CEO of the Planetary Society sits down with host David Ariosto. The conversation starts with Bill’s journey but quickly pivots to the ...

Two research expeditions have captured the first footage of two squid species — a colossal squid and a glacial glass squid — ...

A new study found parts of Antartica could pass a tipping point for mass ice sheet losses as soon as 2050 – pushing sea ...

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

With six months of continual darkness, sub-zero conditions and supreme isolation, the Antarctic is the perfect setting for a horror flick in which the environment drives inhabitants to madness.

"Yes, people are aware that environment and politics are linked, but environmental policy is also always a form of economic or cultural policy," he emphasizes. To those who perceive Antarctica as ...