A new study highlights the key role the Southern Ocean plays in the Earth’s climate system. Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age drew to a close, global temperatures climbed, and the early ...

There are a lot of misconceptions about the Arctic, from the whole concept of the North Pole, to the number of penguins who ...

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 launched its latest luxury polar expedition cruise ship in Hobart today ahead of the vessel’s maiden voyage. Named after famed Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson, the ...

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 ...

China’s TRIDENT telescope plunges 3,500 meters into the deep sea to chase elusive neutrinos, rivaling IceCube and pushing a bold new frontier in cosmic exploration and extreme astrophysics.

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 ...