Antarctica's patterns of stark seasonal changes, with months of darkness followed by a summer of 24-hour daylight, prompted ...

On average, from the point of view of the sun, the Earth completes one full rotation around its axis every 24 hours or 86,400 seconds, give or take a few milliseconds. A millisecond (ms) is 0.001 of a ...

With the level of sea ice lost amounting to the size of Greenland, this mysterious increase of salt in the Antarctic sea was a climate concern.

One such attraction is a 3-million-year-old volcano on Edinburgh Hill in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. A video going viral on Instagram shows glimpses of this ancient volcano. As shared in ...

At the bottom of the world lies a region as magnificent as it is misunderstood: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Harsh, ...

Antarctica’s patterns of stark seasonal changes, with months of darkness followed by a summer of 24-hour daylight, prompted us to explore how a Maori lunar and environmental calendar (Maramataka) ...

Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise ...

Melt from the Earth’s ice sheets is already contributing to flooding throughout the U.S., and globally, and is expected to ...

A top climate scientist says we may have crossed a dangerous tipping point in Antarctica—and the long-term fallout could be ...