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 ...

Microplastics are, it seems, everywhere. They’ve been found at the top of the highest mountains, and at the bottom of the sea ...

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 ...

Times journalists are accompanying a group of scientists on an arduous, weekslong trip to study a key glacier in Antarctica.

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

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

In a world of wild talk and fake news, help us stand up for the facts.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost ...

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.

Rugby player turned explorer Richard Parks guided the Fresh Prince of Bel Air around the world's coldest continent.