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 ...

At 10 a.m. on Saturday, the crew pulled up the gangplank and took in the mooring lines, and soon the Araon was steaming out ...

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 ...

Antarctica is known for being a rather inhospitable place, what with its extreme cold, violent winds, and low levels of water – it is technically a desert. Much of continent also sits at high altitude ...

One of these terra incognita is the land beneath Antarctica’s ice sheets. Buried under kilometres of ice is a fascinating ...

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 Big Island, recently returned from a 2-week expedition in Antarctica.

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

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

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 ...

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