The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...

Ethan Guo, a 19-year-old aviator from Memphis, was detained and charged with submitting a false flight plan before traversing ...

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

The South Pole has been warming at more than three times the global average over the past 30 years, a new study has found. That could have huge implications for the melting of Antarctic ice sheets ...

The South Pole lies within the coldest region on Earth: the Antarctic plateau. Average temperatures here range from minus 60 degrees Celsius during winter to just minus 20 degrees Celsius during ...

The South Pole lies on the flank of the Antarctic plateau at an elevation of 9,300 feet (2,835 meters). Here, ...

LC-130s, which are outfitted with giant skis, are the backbone of the U.S. Antarctic Program and the sole reason that Amundsen-Scott South Pole station is able to function, Tom Ellis, director of ...

OSLO, Norway — Roald Amundsen’s feat of reaching the South Pole on skis 100 years ago is proving a tough act to follow for polar adventurers trying to get there in time to celebrate the ...

The Antarctic ice-sheet melt caused about 40 percent of that; Greenland’s ice-sheet caused 60 percent. The melting of the ice sheets are playing growing roles in coastal floods.

The South Pole lies on the flank of the Antarctic plateau at an elevation of 9,300 feet (2,835 meters). Here, ...

The South Pole has been warming at more than three times the global average over the past 30 years, a new study has found. That could have huge implications for the melting of Antarctic ice sheets ...