A new study highlights the key role the Southern Ocean plays in the Earth’s climate system. Around 12,000 years ago, the last ...

A spherical sea sponge discovered in Antarctica, Carnivorous cladorhizid, is a carnivore, trapping and devouring live animals ...

Warmer air makes glaciers speed up more and reach peak speed earlier each year, showing temperature strongly controls how ice moves.

The UK government has said the threat of a Russian attack is being taken ‘seriously’.

Aurora Expeditions has unveiled a comprehensive suite of next-generation sustainability initiatives that will directly shape ...

Pan Am originally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January 1991, and it attempted a slimmed-down reboot, with ...

Things rot so slowly in the polar regions that history becomes alive. The more you know, the more you recognize what you see ...

Swetha Gurumurthy provides a stark, monochromatic view of the human motor system. This high-contrast image shows the “neurites” — the branching highways that connect motor neurons to muscles. Using a ...

Representatives of Papua New Guinea and Bougainville held talks this week in Port Moresby over the future of the autonomous region's political status, and agreed that the issue will be taken to the ...

Aurora Expeditions has partnered with start-up CounterCurrent to trial technology that aims to reduce fuel consumption across ...

NASA has confirmed that dust from the ancient asteroid Bennu contains tryptophan, an amino acid tied both to human mood and to the chemistry that makes life possible. The finding folds a familiar ...

A sweeping set of sustainability initiatives from Aurora Expeditions could set a new benchmark for the expedition cruise ...