In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

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

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

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 ...

The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...

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

Antarctica remains the only continent without a case COVID-19. Now nearly 1,000 scientists and others, who stayed there while the entire world faced the pandemic, are attempting to make sure incoming ...

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

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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

As long as humans have known of its existence, they have wanted to visit Antarctica. It is the world’s least visited, least populated continent. On the best day, it is extremely hard to get to. And ...