One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ...

The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 miles (510 kilometers) ...

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been ...

Iran’s president has fired one of his deputies for taking what he described as a “lavish” recreational trip to Antarctica.

Even though no humans live on the Heard and McDonalds islands, the region faces 10% tariffs on foreign imports to the U.S.

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...

The subglacial hydrology of the coldest continent on the planet is giving climate experts a peek at the future.

Alma Asinobi’s mission to break the world record for the fastest time to visit every continent hit an expected road bump: ...

NBC’s Chase Cain reports from Antarctica, where melting ice is accelerating sea level rise and disrupting global weather ...

Historically, there have been four oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic. On Feb. 9, U.S. Secretary of the ...

About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an ...