NBC’s Chase Cain reports from Antarctica, where melting ice is accelerating sea level rise and disrupting global weather ...

Captain James Cook's third and final attempt to sail south in search of the elusive Terra Australis was blocked by ...

A dramatic collapse in Antarctica’s summer sea ice has stunned scientists, with coverage plunging to 30% below the historical ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...

In the first study to consider the long-term evolution of the rivers that flow beneath glaciers, researchers have new ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

Stanford researchers discovered that increased meltwater and rainfall account for 60% of the decades-long gap between ...

"But Antarctica is not an apolitical human paradise with untouched nature—a sort of continent for scientific inquiry alone.

The Trump administration has placed a 10 percent “ reciprocal tariff ” on the Heard and McDonald Islands, which are external ...

The US president has imposed tariffs on a number of tiny territories, some of which do not even have human inhabitants.