Located in Tanzania, Africa’s tallest mountain sits on the Kenyan border in East Africa, some 200 miles south of the Equator.

When the Chicago-size iceberg drifted away, scientists seized the opportunity to study the life and geologic formations ...

Isolation, frigid temperatures and old food are small prices to pay for the opportunity to do research in Antarctica.

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...

Trump is not the first American leader to dream of northern expansion. History suggests these designs reveal simmering ...

It’s either us or Argentina, says a Telegraph report dreaming about a ‘glorious British repurposing’ of the bottom of the Earth. One legal catch with this argument? The icy south has never been ...

The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite records this season, with just 5.53 ...

Usha Vance had been set to visit Greenland to see cultural sites, including a major dogsled race - the Avannaata Qimussersua. Not now. What happened?

"But Antarctica is not an apolitical human paradise with untouched nature—a sort of continent for scientific inquiry alone.

During a partial solar eclipse, the moon passes between the sun and Earth. The moon casts a shadow on Earth and only partly ...