A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

Beneath kilometers of ice in East Antarctica, a team of geoscientists led by geophysicist Stewart Jamieson of Durham ...

Paola Santiago Padua, a native of Toa Baja and a doctoral candidate in California, aims to return to Puerto Rico to study the ...

As Midwinter Day comes to Antarctica –- the darkest day of the year –- those spending the winter on the frozen continent will follow a tradition dating back more than a century to the earliest days of ...

An ice shelf the size of New York City has collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long thought to be stable and not hit much by climate change, concerned scientists say. The collapse, captured by ...

ANTARCTICA (WKRC) - Scientists recently discovered amber fragments that suggest the snow-covered continent of Antarctica could have once been a lush jungle. The idea that Antarctica once looked like ...

Very few places on Earth feel truly untouched. Antarctica is one of them.It’s the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, ...

The last remnant of vegetation in Antarctica vanished about 12 million years ago, suggests a new study of tiny pollen fossils buried deep beneath the seafloor. That last bit of plant life existed in a ...

Antarctica has moved to “the front of the line” as a global warming threat that’s already well beyond expectations, and it’s happening fast. Based upon ...

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner carrying 45 passengers successfully landed in Antarctica — a first for that model. The widebody plane landed on a 3,000-yard-long landing strip of blue ice. Landing on the ...