Finding herself in charge of her sick husband’s clipper, a self-taught working-class teenager overcame storms, icebergs and a disloyal first mate to get her ship to safety ...

Alfred Russel Wallace observed a distinct biological divide in the Malay Archipelago, now known as the Wallace Line. Recent studies reveal that Asian species, adapted to wet tropics, successfully ...

Most people can point to the seven continents on a map, but the actual reality of these massive landmasses is […] ...

When people think of the coldest locations on this planet, they often think of snow-covered forests and frozen bodies of water during prolonged polar nights. Although Antarctica has scored the lowest ...

The Best Open-World Games That You Need to Play This Winter are full of snowy locales and frigid conditions.

After working and camping for a week on Thwaites Glacier, scientists were ready to start drilling into the ice, if only the ...

A U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker assisted an Antarctica cruise ship after shifting pack ice slowed its voyage, allowing it to ...

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

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