Climbing Mount Vinson in Antarctica, part of the world's Seven Summits, is a goal for the most intrepid adventurer.

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

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The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...

The New York Times is on an expedition to study Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers. CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times For much of January and February, Raymond Zhong, a New York Times ...

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning both hemispheres of the globe. The Western Hemisphere sector of the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christine Siddoway, Colorado College; Anna Ruth (Ruthie) Halberstadt, The University ...

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This is Antarctica. Stark white desolation as far as the eye can see. It is *** vast frozen continent at the bottom of the world, where temperatures drop to nearly 130 degrees below zero. *** barren ...

Ethan Guo, the 20-year-old American pilot on a quest to become the youngest person to fly solo to all seven continents to raise money for cancer research, has been allowed to leave Chile after being ...

Ethan Guo had been held by Chilean officials since June. Ethan Guo, the 20-year-old American pilot on a quest to become the youngest person to fly solo to all seven continents to raise money for ...