Beneath Antarctica's ice, an unsuspected danger looms. Global warming could awaken dormant volcanoes, triggering a chain ...

All is well here at Mount Vinson! Mount Vinson, the highest mountain in Antarctica, stands 16,050 ft., making it one of the iconic Seven Summits - the highest mountain on each of the seven continents.

Braving the same unpredictable Antarctic sea ice that doomed the ship 109 years ago, the 2022 team miraculously found the final missing piece of the legendary expedition.

Larsen discovered the first antarctic fossils, which proved that at least part of this region is not vQlcanic. During the years from 1902 to 1904, Capt. R. F_ Scott, commanding the “Discovery ...

Rory Callum Sykes was at the family’s 17-acre Mount Malibu TV Studios estate, where he had his own cottage, when it burned down on January 8, his mother Shelley Sykes wrote on X Thursday.

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

Humans have been recording the weather for thousands of years. Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 ...

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters ...

A Dec. 26, 2024, Instagram post shows maps of purported Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, from Dec. 24, 1979, and the same day in 2024. Text above the graphic says the extent was larger in 2024 ...