Ask people to name the coldest country in the world, and the answer almost instinctively given is Antarctica. The confusion ...

Antarctica faces abrupt, irreversible climate changes as warming nears 1.5 °C, threatening ice, oceans, ecosystems, and ...

Bone-chilling winters, inhabited towns, and lives built around survival — a closer look at a place where minus degrees are part of everyday living.

Antarctica’s harsh, icy environment is home to a surprising array of wildlife, from iconic penguins to seals and tiny yet ...

I have no fear . . . I have no dread. Of that marked day that lies ahead. My flesh will turn to ash and clay ... The captain recited a morbid poem over the loudspeaker — then told us to put away all ...

New study explains how winter sea ice and melting ice shelves control the formation of deep ocean water in Antarctica.

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 ...

How do you grow watermelons in a place with nothing we’d recognize as a summer? Researchers at Russia’s year-round Vostok Station worked it out, producing eight watermelons weighing about 2 pounds ...

CLARION, Iowa (KWWL) -- Jon Ahrendsen practices family medicine in Clarion, Iowa and decided he wanted to embark on a once in a lifetime career opportunity. "A lot of people ask what my journey in ...