Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A portion of the world's iciest, coldest continent is "greening" at a dramatic rate because of global warming, scientists ...

Most of us learned the same list in school: seven continents, give or take a geography teacher’s preference for merging ...

Russian research ships have been firing sound waves at the seafloor in the Weddell Sea, a remote stretch of water off ...

A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand. There is nothing else alive around it. All it can see is a wall of ice reaching 20 meters up into the sky. It is cold. Survival is hard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christopher Wood/Shutterstock When I was working on my book Antarctica in Fiction, friends and colleagues would joke about what an ...

Thwaites “the Doomsday Glacier” West Antarctica is the world’s most famous icon of global warming. It is acting up! Recent ...

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Hidden warm-water traps beneath Antarctica may be melting the continent’s ice far faster than scientists realized.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Will McGough writes about travel destinations and outdoor adventures. Packing lists for people going to Antarctica tend to be gear ...

My husband and I skipped Thanksgiving this year to visit our 7th continent together. Our kids, who've visited 25 countries with us, supported our dream and followed our trip virtually. It was a trip ...

For over 60 years Antarctica has been a "veritable Shangri-La", said The Economist, "untouched by war, unspoilt by humans, where all nationalities are welcome". The treaty has "endured and expanded" ...