Create an account or log in to save stories. The Antarctic is warming. This means, the ice sheet in the Antarctic Peninsula is shrinking, and ice is breaking off the continent. “The largest ...

A team of Spanish scientists exploring the Antarctic seabed has detected “massive emissions” of methane, a gas with a capacity to warm the planet around 30 times greater than carbon dioxide (CO₂). The ...

Microplastics have been found just about everywhere that scientists have looked: on remote islands, in fresh snow in Antarctica, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific ...

Two hundred million years ago, icy Antarctica was a lush, temperate region, home to crocodile-sized amphibians and rhinoceros-sized dinosaurs. Guests to the Durham Museum will find realistic ...

DOUMER ISLAND, Antarctica — As I stood on skis looking across untouched snowfields and layers of chiseled mountains — with an ocean of icebergs and sea ice behind us — a comment our guide ...

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study has found. The fossil is a specimen of a species called Vegavis iaai, ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent might have been just that for the early ancestors of today’s living ...

Scientists used computer models to predict how water flows under the entire Antarctic ice sheet, which dictates where and how quickly glaciers move toward the ocean. The findings, published Dec ...

Flex boards, banners and cut-outs have been installed along the roads.” State government officials said that no specific sector is being highlighted as a theme for this year’s summit and that all ...

Antarctica is truly a bucket-list destination, as the beautiful continent can be difficult and expensive to get to. Most Antarctic cruises cost thousands of dollars a person and many only sail ...

I’ll confess that I don’t know exactly how KenPom’s conference strength of schedule rating is calculated, but it certainly tracks with my gut feeling when placing Xavier on top of the Big East in that ...