The vast, icy island is accessible without the need for polar explorer gear, especially along the southern and western coasts. However, it’s best to visit its villages and fjords with specialized agen ...

All alone. Monet Izabeth pulled a 200-pound sled in the Antarctic wilderness to reach the South Pole. She’s the first ...

So, three artists go to the end of the earth, and what do they bring us back? A little work of art, naturally.

Sea-level rise has accelerated across Africa in recent decades, thanks to global warming and, in particular, to the melting ...

Do snowy owls live in Antarctica? What’s the most alarming measurement scientists are watching for? What do you eat and drink? Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong answers some questions from students ...

In one of the most remote and harsh environments on Earth, three penguin species are telling a story that’s about much more ...

Antarctica looks like the set of a science fiction epic, a continent of jagged ice cliffs, neon auroras and endless white horizons. Yet by the strict standards scientists use, it is not just a frozen ...

The U.S. conducted its first inspection of a Chinese Antarctic station in six years to verify it was being peacefully used.

On a map, Antarctica reads like the final frontier, a place where the rules of the natural world work a little differently.

The Northeast Ohio native is part of an environmental science class studying the area for its importance to the global ...

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is a hidden ocean – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.