Antarctica is home to Earth’s largest concentration of meteorites — so many that over 60 percent of meteorite finds originate ...

When Antarctica was lush with forests during the Eocene, there was a carnivorous bird that had a curved beak and terrifying ...

Tucked in among the glaciers, fiery Mount Erebus is the southernmost active volcano on Earth, providing a bit of heat amid the frozen landscape of Antarctica.

Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ...

If ozone holes last longer, summer-breeding animals around Antarctica's vast coastline will be exposed to high levels of ...

Scientists are warning Antarctica's animals and plants are being exposed to twice as much UV radiation as they were in the ...

Mohua Rouf is one of the few Bangladeshis who have ever set foot on the world’s southernmost continent, Antarctica. She spent ...

Dr. Cassandra Brooks—an assistant professor of environmental studies and a faculty fellow with the Institute of Arctic and ...

Mount Erebus, which joins Deception Island as the only two of 138 active volcanoes in Antarctica, is known for expelling ...

Nature Season of the Osprey Wednesday, May 1 at 8:00 pm An osprey soars over a small saltmarsh at the delta of the ...

An active volcano in Antarctica is shooting $6,000 in gold dust into the air every single day, NASA’s Earth Observatory ...

Researchers studying Antarctica's remote Weddell Sea have picked up particles far smaller than previous studies.