Only a few expedition cruise companies offer trips with an opportunity to ski in Antarctica. Here's what it's like to see a ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

Schalau returned to Fargo last fall after spending a year cooking for a research station at the South Pole. Before he headed south in September 2023, Schalau was a cook at Luna for two years. Upon his ...

Want to skip security lines with a handy little iris scan and fingerprint scan? Welcome to CLEAR, the US's latest airport ...

Over a million people are camping out in the cold for a month on the banks of the Ganges river. The BBC's Samira Hussain describes what she saw at the world's largest religious gathering.

It’s surreal to look back at the ship’s bow totally engulfed by ice. We’re the only living, breathing things here – until a ...

The phenomenon occurs because the Earth’s Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun as the planet rotates around it, and Antarctica is at its closest point to the sun on the rotation.

For instance, in the warm, calm eastern part of the Dotson ice shelf in west Antarctica, an autonomous robot observed basal terraces. In the west of Dotson – which experiences cold, fast ...

Jennifer Majors, the park’s superintendent, detailed the projects, which include new recreational facilities, revamped camping options, and community-oriented improvements. Among the highlights ...

It only takes one dead phone battery to make you realize the importance of a power bank for camping. Whether it’s snapping a picture of the local flora and fauna, setting an alarm for your sunrise ...

Harsh, remote and brutally cold, Antarctica is a continent of utter extremes where only the toughest survive. Yet, since the great rush to reach the mythical South Pole in the early 20th century, ...

Scientists hope that studying these lower sections will reveal whether ice older than 1.2 million years might still exist in Antarctica. Experts want to see if the ice can confirm whether sections ...