Nicole Kidman has ticked off a major bucket list item by visiting all seven continents, with her daughters Sunday Rose and ...

For almost 80 years, expeditioners have been travelling south as part of Australia's Antarctic program. It's a complex operation in a challenging environment, but each year, almost 6,000 people apply ...

What began as an unplanned streak of family trips morphed into a globe-trotting mission, culminating with an Upper West Side couple's 7-year-old shuffling across Antarctic ice this fall, bundled tight ...

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 ...

WOODS HOLE — Small, deliberate sounds filled the hall outside a sub-zero freezer inside a lab building at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Quissett campus — the snap of zippers, the whisper of ...

Snakes are one of the earth’s creatures you either love or hate. Some are fascinated with their behavior and movements, while others run in fear at the sight (or sound). Regardless of your opinion on ...