An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old. The goal of the French duo is to better ...

From Lewis Hamilton to Prince Harry, stars are increasingly striking the White Continent off their bucket lists. Opportunities abound for the rest of us as well. By Brad Japhe In the early afternoon ...

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the climatic blowtorch of human-caused global warming, most of Antarctica’s vast ...

(CNN) — Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” scientists have found, raising fears that ...

Antarctica covers more than 5 million square miles - yet almost no one is allowed to explore it freely. From international treaties and military zones to deadly weather and hidden research bases, the ...

In Richard Campanella's newest book, "Crossroads, Cutoffs and Confluences: Origins of Louisiana Cities, Towns and Villages," he analyzes each region of Louisiana and each town's siting story. Through ...

"What we're seeing is things like extreme heat waves, levels of temperature change in Antarctica we've never seen before and didn't expect to see. We're seeing the ice retreating at a rate we'd never ...

Earlier in 2025, UNSW Sydney Ph.D. candidate Christina Schmidt submitted her thesis—from the deck of Australia's multi-billion-dollar icebreaker, just off the East Antarctic coast. Schmidt's research ...

Hidden beneath the biggest ice mass on Earth, hundreds of subglacial lakes form a crucial part of Antarctica's icy structure, affecting the movement and stability of glaciers, and consequentially ...