Oymyakon, a remote village in Siberia's Sakha Republic, is recognized as the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth, ...

Animal species that live in environments as harsh as the Antarctic have many incredible adaptations to help them survive. Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) are a leading example. These resilient ...

Congratulations, Antarctica! You're still the coldest place on Earth. And in 2010, you hosted a new record low temperature. A new look at old NASA Landsat 8 satellite data showed that, on August 10, ...

East Antarctica’s interior is warming faster than coasts, driven by Indian Ocean changes, raising global sea level risks.

The coldest, windiest, and most unforgiving place on Earth – Antarctica. Yet, one man has learned to survive, adapt, and ...

You're going to need more than a heavy winter coat if you want to stay warm in the Russian town of Oymyakon. Located in a remote corner of Siberia, the town of about 500 will endure high temperatures ...

You're going to need more than a heavy winter coat if you want to stay warm in the Russian town of Oymyakon. Located in a remote corner of Siberia, the town of about 500 will endure high temperatures ...

Think twice about traveling south — way, way south — this summer. On July 28, the State Department reissued its routine travel advisory for Antarctica with a Level 2 designation, meaning travelers ...

Matthias Dehling receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...

The event took place during the last gasp of the Little Ice Age, one of the coldest periods on Earth in the past 10,000 years ... sulfur fallout — a sign of volcanic activity — was about 6 ½ times ...