In the deep seas found at the Earth’s poles, explorers are still finding elusive and mysterious sea creatures. On an ...

If National Geographic asks you if you want to go to Antarctica, you can’t say no.” That’s a quote. Becky: What advice helped you to prepare for your assignment?

Photograph by Carolyn Van Houten, National Geographic What Friedlaender knows is this: In the early 2000s, minke accounted for up to 40 percent of the whales that he saw along the Antarctic Peninsula.

It’s summer in Antarctica. Here’s how to explore responsibly. Small-scale scientific expeditions help balance tourism and preservation in this frozen frontier at the ends of the Earth.

Antarctica is the last continent without COVID-19. Scientists want to keep it that way. Studying Antarctica is critical to combating climate change, but most scientists can’t travel to the ...

In an expedition unlike any other, National Geographic photographer Laurent Ballesta took a cold, harsh plunge below the sea ice in the deepest dive ever under Antarctica.. In October 2015, the ...

What happens in Antarctica doesn't stay in Antarctica, since the continent's ice can affect global weather and sea level. ... who is also a National Geographic explorer who works on the continent.

Amundsen Sea, Antarctica — Up on the helicopter deck Meghan Spoth and Victoria Fitzgerald practice setting up camp. Just over Spoth’s shoulder a mile-wide tabular iceberg slides past ...

But if the world stays on its current path to exceed 2°C, Antarctica might experience an abrupt jump in melting and ice loss around 2060, nearly doubling its contribution to sea level rise by 2100.

Untamed Antarctica. They’d heard about the wild winds that lash icy Queen Maud Land. ... THE NEW AGE OF EXPLORATION is a yearlong series of articles celebrating National Geographic at 125.

Antarctica's ice shelves are losing it. Conventional wisdom holds that ice shelves—the seaward extension of glaciers on land—lose most of their mass by shedding icebergs. But new research ...

Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men to walk on the moon, was safely evacuated from the South Pole, the U.S. National Science Foundation said December 1. The agency, which runs the U.S. Amundsen ...