We were first introduced to the continents by flipping the pages of our geography textbooks, reading about their diverse countries, cultures, and traditions. As time went on, we swapped books for ...

Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that gap made ...

Michael Sayih and Max Fink will take on The Great World Race in November.

It's just a question of whether we're fast enough to stretch out that loss to several thousand years versus dumb enough to ...

Scientists study poop patterns of Adélie penguin colonies across all of Antarctica over a 30-year span using Landsat ...

For a long time, the story seemed straightforward. As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels fell and the planet cooled, large ice ...

Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another ...

More than 40 years after it was collected, an Antarctic fossil has been recognized as a far more consequential discovery than anyone first realized, according to Sci.News. The bone is now considered ...

Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...