Learn more about the rock library that holds ancient rocks and clues from the Transantarctic Mountains.

The best outdoor adventure links of the past seven days, from taking up free-diving at 40 to a bear attack in Romania to the ...

This Norwegian village takes "polar night" to the extreme, but thanks to modern technology, you can enjoy a sunny, recreation-filled alpine getaway.

In a feedback of fire and ice, thinning ice sheets over geologic hot spots could allow more eruptions, while increased ...

The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...

My reflections on the privations, hazards and delights of a summer spent as a surveyor in the amazing, unique Antarctic landscape By Andrew Turk, a member of Fremantle-Tangney Greens who enjoyed a lon ...

Retreating glaciers — rivers of ice shrinking back as the world warms — are the most tangible and direct evidence of climate ...

Learn how emperor penguins adopt a complex choreography to form a huddle to stay warm in bitter Antarctic winds.

A Himalayan village in Nepal has vanished — emptied by climate change. Samjung, perched in the high-altitude Upper Mustang ...

Mountains, sub-glacial lakes, hidden valleys, even remnants of lost civilizations: what lies under Antarctica’s vast 2,000-metre thick ice sheet has long been a mystery akin to the depths of the ocean ...

METEOROLOGICAL observation in the Antarctic is of great importance to long-range weather prediction throughout the Southern Hemisphere. The wild and frigid storms originating over the great glacial ...

Would you travel four days to go to Antarctica? No? I did. Two days to get there and two to get back, but in between were ...