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 ...

At least 70 leaders of Catatumbo demanded Wednesday in Bogota solutions to the Colombian government for the guerrilla violence that plagues the region bordering Venezuela and in just over two weeks ...

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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 ...

First, because it looks like the Department of Transportation is going to backtrack on the newly released Fly Rights program. Second, because—as of May 7, 2025—the United States will require all ...

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