When Eric Sun and Jennifer Liu, avid travelers who met in college, decided to marry, there was one continent left on their ...

In it, Sarah Wheeler, a writer-in-residence, explorers the various bases located down in Antarctica (each owned and run by a different country), explains the scientific research happening in ...

And that’s just the United States—other countries ... a treaty in Antarctica recognizing heritage and protecting it.” The moon is just one of the 25 sites on this year’s list of at-risk ...

From the culinary specialties of Tasmania to the plethora of wildlife in the Seychelles, islands far and wide are home to a ...

12- Lenin’s Bust With a long list of countries that have either funded expeditions to Antarctica or set up research stations on the continent, Antarctica’s landscape is dotted with all sorts of quirky ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

While colder temperatures have been recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica (minus 128.6 degrees on July 21, 1983) and Klink Station, Greenland (minus 93.3 degrees on Dec. 22, 1991), Oymyakon's coldest ...

Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

The Interannual Variability of Antarctic Fast‐Ice Thickness in McMurdo Sound and Connections to Climate. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans , 2024; 129 (12) DOI: 10.1029/2023JC020134 Cite ...

There is indirect evidence that, during the last interglacial period, about 125,000 years ago, parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated. An ice core drilled from the ice sheet near the ...