Scientists call for better protection of Antarctica’s vulnerable seafloor ecosystem as ship traffic increases around the continent.

A total collapse of the roughly 80-mile-wide Thwaites Glacier, the widest in the world, would trigger changes that could lead ...

The Nazca lived between 100 B.C. and A.D. 800 in what scientists call a tropical desert. Yet just offshore, the sea teemed ...

Animal species that live in environments as harsh as the Antarctic have many incredible adaptations to help them survive.

According to BirdLife, about half of all penguin species are listed as vulnerable or endangered. One study even predicted ...

The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance helped make a Colorado grandmother's dream come true this week. She got the chance to ...

This painted penguin pot is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was made about 1,600 years ago and was collected in Peru in the late 19th century. The multicolored ceramic vessel is ...

Can you tell what's wrong with this picture of the North Pole? This brain teaser will primarily test your attention to detail ...

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 ...

In recent years, the Southern Ocean has undergone one of the most dramatic environmental shifts observed anywhere on Earth.

All together, that makes a wonderful, very human, mess. Back in the 1960s, the United States Geological Survey stated: “There ...

The Russian official — until recently in charge of the firm that has stitched together vast maps of South Pole hydrocarbons — is helping negotiate Putin’s ‘scientific’ interests at the prestigious ...