The East Antarctic Ice Sheet, a vast expanse spanning over 10 million square kilometers, has long concealed a landscape ...

The Ann Arbor couple were among 130 guests who sailed the Drake Passage to Antarctica, visiting otherworldly landscapes mostly inhabited by seals and penguins, before flying back to South America ...

The ocean melts ice shelves from below – a process known as “basal melting”. Increased basal melting has led to the thinning and retreat of the ice sheet in some regions, raising global sea ...

Antarctic cruises are ideal for intrepid explorers wanting to discover the white wilderness of the South Pole. A land of spectacular scenery and unique wildlife, many cruises of the southern ...

New Additions to the Pleistocene Vertebrate Record of California. PaleoBios 15(1-4): 1-80. Long, D.J. 1992. Sharks from the La Meseta Formation (Eocene), Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal ...

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters ...

Widespread coastal melting occurred in Antarctica through the second half of December and is continuing in the first few days of the new year in several areas. Nearly every region with routine surface ...

A journey to Antarctica is the journey of a lifetime. And the things you’ll see and experience—the sight of penguins marching along their snowy highways, the sound of a humpback whale surfacing to ...

Researchers say social media is contributing to the growing popularity of tourism in Antarctica, where annual visitor numbers surged to 124,000 over the past year. But there is concern that the ...

Researchers say social media is contributing to the growing popularity of tourism in Antarctica, where annual visitor numbers surged to 124,000 over the past year. But there is concern that the ...

Gabriel Boric’s trip to the pole, which his office called the first by a Latin American president, comes amid rising competition for influence in Antarctica. By Eve Sampson Chile’s president ...