On the ship I boarded at the bottom of Argentina with the three men I love most, I put my socks in a drawer, my sweaters on a ...

Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on ...

The Antarctic ozone hole closed early in 2025 after one of the shortest seasons in decades, reflecting long-term recovery of the ozone layer.

A new hybrid trip from Terra Nova Expeditions allows Antarctic adventurers to sail on a larger expedition ship and a small yacht. Scott Laird is a freelance travel writer who has logged over two ...

Joint press release issued by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research and Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Antarctica plays a crucial role in the Earth’s climate ...

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Gravity feels reliable — stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over the Earth’s surface. And it is weakest ...

New York City was colder than parts of Antarctica on Sunday after brutal, life-threatening winds swept across much of the Northeast and New England over the weekend — but there is good news to warm ...

More than 50 skuas in Antarctica died from the high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the summers of 2023 and 2024, marking the first documented die-off of wildlife from the virus on the ...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the world conducting field research in Antarctica this season. The traditional ...

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