Antarctica

A diplomatic row at the bottom of the world is playing out between the normally allied U.S. and U.K. governments in response to provocations from Russia. The feud could lead to an import ban on Patagonian toothfish, also known as Chilean sea bass

Parts of Antarctica Friday hit 70 degrees warmer than normal.

Scientists say they have found the sunken wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, more than a century after it was lost to the Antarctic ice

Teams of scientists sailing to Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier, are having trouble getting there

The ocean around Antarctica is doing its best to help Earth’s atmosphere, and it turns out it’s doing a better job than previously thought. A new NASA-sponsored study says the Southern Ocean is a very effective “carbon sink,” meaning the water absorbs much more carbon from the air than it releases. Researcher Matthew Long explains more about the...

Ice scientists say they worry most about the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica and how much the melting ice shelf can add to already rising seas.

From Europe to Asia to the depths of Antarctica, here’s how Christmas is celebrated in nine places around the world — and one place that orbits around the world.

Residential superyachts sell onboard apartments to owners who want top-of-the-line amenities without the hassle of boat maintenance and staffing.

Scientists say the Southern Hemisphere ozone hole is larger than usual and already surpasses the size of Antarctica.

Travelers regularly search for activities in New York, Paris and Rome — but the world’s most popular online travel search is in none of those places.

Satellite video shows the ice shelf holding the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica back from the sea is breaking up much faster than before

A huge iceberg nearly nine times the size of Miami has broken off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The phenomena is known as calving, and comes almost a decade after scientists at the British Antarctic Survey first detected growth of vast cracks in the ice. It’s the third major crack in the ice shelf that’s become active in...

A massive iceberg has broken off the brunt ice shelf in Antarctica.

The pandemic has finally reached every continent on Earth.

Antarctica remains the only continent without COVID-19. Now, as nearly 1,000 scientists and others who wintered over on the ice are seeing the sun for the first time in weeks or months, a global effort wants to make sure incoming colleagues don’t bring the virus with them.

The U.N. weather agency says an Argentine research base on the northern tip of Antarctica is reporting a temperature that, if confirmed, could amount to a record high for the icy continent

As freezing water thrashed their rowboat in some of the most treacherous waters in the world, six men fought for 13 days to make history, becoming the first people to traverse the infamous Drake Passage with nothing other than sheer manpower. They dodged icebergs, held their breaths as giant whales breached near their small boat and rode building-sized waves while…

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Earth is in more hot water than ever before, and so are we, an expert United Nations climate panel warned in a grim new report Wednesday. Sea levels are rising at an ever-faster rate as ice and snow shrink, and oceans are getting more acidic and losing oxygen, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report issued as...

Airbnb is offering a handful of people concerned about the environment a chance to participate in scientific research on how to help preserve it during an all-expense-paid trip to Antarctica. The Antarctic Sabbatical, as the travel company is dubbing it, will give five people the opportunity to study how widely microplastics have infiltrated the region. Over a month’s time in...