The New York Times calls Antarctica the “melting continent.” As temperatures rise, the oceans are rising at unprecedented ...

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...

Flat Earth theories have circulated for years, but a recent post adds another element to the theory – a claim that the world is surrounded by an ice wall. An Oct. 29 Instagram post includes a photo of ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

Antarctica remains the only continent without a case COVID-19. Now nearly 1,000 scientists and others, who stayed there while the entire world faced the pandemic, are attempting to make sure incoming ...

Eric Pōmaikaʻi Gee, a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa sophomore, Waikōloa native and graduate of Kealakehe High School on the ...

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Maps of Antarctica date back to when Roman geographer and astronomer Ptolemy envisioned a land in the southern hemisphere to counterbalance that in the north to satisfy an ancient sense of proportion.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. At this very moment a vast world exists that ...

Antarctica is known for being a rather inhospitable place, what with its extreme cold, violent winds, and low levels of water – it is technically a desert. Much of continent also sits at high altitude ...

It is not the near-mythical realm imagined by earlier cartographers, who left it as a blank space labeled “Unknown Southern Land.” It is a vital continent full of clues about our planet’s deep past ...