Why Antarctica’s tourism boom could spell disaster - ANALYSIS: Tourism growth is terrible for the icy continent, write Darla ...

About two-thirds of Antarctic tourists land on the continent. The visitors can threaten fragile ecosystems by: Even when ...

On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

Glaciers are flowing rivers of ice, formed when snowfall compresses into a solid sheet. Over the span of hundreds of years, ...

New research has, for the first time, tracked ice shelf, sea ice and ocean swell wave conditions over multiple years in the ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

Actress Liu Tao, an active advocate for climate change awareness, shared her experiences visiting glaciers in the Xizang autonomous region. Liu also read an emotional essay written by a high school ...

The Himalayan village of Samjung did not die in a day. Perched in a wind-carved valley in Nepal's Upper Mustang, more than 13,000 feet (3,962 meters) above sea level, the Buddhist village lived by ...

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater ...

In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named “Ran” to traverse ...