The program took 34 U.S. and Canadian instructors to the South Pole in December to help them educate students about the ...

Penguin chicks, whose coats are made of fluffy down feathers, aren't as protected from the rain as adult penguins. Getting ...

A criminal complaint has been filed regarding a humpback whale being killed by a krill supertrawler, the Chilean-flagged Antarctic Endeavour, in the pristine waters of the Antarctic.

A trip to Antarctica might feel less like crossing the ocean and more like crossing the galaxy, but what happens there ...

To commemorate its 40th anniversary, Seatrade Cruise Global News is inviting a cross section of executives working in the ...

Scientists are rethinking what we knew about a vanished ice sheet — and that could spell trouble for New York City.

Extremely low sea ice levels in the Arctic and Antarctica signal a "new normal" that may accelerate global warming and ...

An Antarctica expedition is a dream come true for Tracey Davies, but first she has to cross the Drake Passage, the roughest ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

Earth Day has its roots in growing concern over pollution in the 1960s, when author Rachel Carson's 1962 book “Silent Spring,” about the pesticide DDT and its damaging effects on the food chain, hit ...

Just a few decades ago, the sky above Antarctica became a symbol of environmental crisis. Scientists had discovered a massive ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of the planet reveal visible changes to the Earth's surface.