Mining is banned on the frozen continent. But new research suggests that could change as ice melts and land and valuable minerals are exposed.

New research sheds light on what drives reddish water to emerge from underground to pour onto the Taylor Glacier.

We had the Falklands and South Georgia to ourselves, and we really only encountered other ships on two of the days we were in ...

None of the main research on the voyage of the Araon was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, a sign of the ...

An international team featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has drilled the longest ever sediment core from under an ice sheet, providing a record stretching back ...

Geologists from St. Petersburg State University, as part of an international scientific team, have analyzed rock data from East Antarctica and determined that the magnetic anomaly in this region ...

Many experts had thought sharks didn’t exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica before this sleeper shark lumbered warily and ...

Most recently, Brewer served as an EMT firefighter at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica through the United States Antarctic Program (USAP) where he provided emergency medical and ...

Here are 15 questions that sound embarrassingly easy but trip up most people who try them. Most people say China or the ...

Researchers reporting in Nature Climate Change conclude that several Antarctic ice drainage basins may already be committed ...

An international team co-led by Imperial College London has obtained the longest ever sediment core from beneath the ...