The Māori language describes 12 distinct types of snow. Researchers are identifying them in Antarctica as part of a project ...

Humphrey School Alumnus Kalvin Moschkau Goes to Mongolia for Conservation Work, Thanks to a Luce Scholarship. He earned his ...

Researchers measuring the salinity of the Southern Ocean did find unexpected results, but some online reports got the details ...

The North Pole, often a subject of fascination, lies at the very top of our planet, but its exact location can be difficult to pinpoint on a standard map. Geographically, it is located over the Arctic ...

Most meetings reward the loudest and quickest voices. Fast talkers dominate, while more reflective thinkers get sidelined. Ideas are judged not by their substance but by the confidence with which they ...

Everything in the sky felt upside down and opposite, compared with what I was used to. A person who lives in the Southern Hemisphere might feel the same about visiting the Arctic or the North Pole.

The South Pole Telescope has released its most precise image yet of the universe’s first light—the cosmic microwave background. This new ground-based data confirms cosmic expansion anomalies and ...

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached some of Earth’s remotest corners.

Is there really an ancient pyramid in Antarctica? If true, this would suggest it is millions of years older than Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, which is considered the oldest man-made structure in the world.

That's how Lieutenant Commander Shinn recalled finding out he had been chosen to land at the South Pole. A WW2 veteran, Shinn joined the American Naval Antarctic exploration efforts "just to get ...

Trump’s $60m Antarctic infrastructure cut is a blow to US influence at the South Pole The US-owned Amundsen-Scott South Pole station at the geographic South Pole, 2018. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) ...

Antarctic sea ice drops to a near-record LOW: Shocking maps reveal how the South Pole is missing thousands of miles of ice - and scientists say global warming is to blame ...