While colder temperatures have been recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica (minus 128.6 degrees on July 21, 1983) and Klink Station, Greenland (minus 93.3 degrees on Dec. 22, 1991), Oymyakon's coldest ...

The long-ignored continent of Zealandia has now been mapped and officially recognized as Earth’s eighth continent. Stretching ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

Our 21-day expedition cruise on the Seabourn Pursuit came with excursions throughout Antarctica, Falkland Islands, and ...

More than 25 million Americans have a fear of flying, also known as aerophobia or aviophobia. This type of anxiety may be all ...

Based on individual trends within cities, Washington was by far the leader in rat increases, followed by San Francisco, ...

F) captured at Vostok Station in 1983.Imagine trying to warm up in that situation! While we think of cold winters as ...

The Denman glacier in East Antarctica is one of the largest and fastest melting glaciers on the continent, and yet little is ...

A male sanderling in breeding plumage is something to see, a bird with a classic shorebird profile – horizontal torso, slim, longish bill, respectable set of black gams – wrapped in a complex serape ...

Happy Valley-Goose Bay family physician Samantha Harper ran an ultra-marathon in Antarctica. (Submitted by Samantha ...

If it gets stuck near South Georgia Island, that could make it hard for penguin parents to feed their babies and some young could starve.

The world's biggest iceberg -- more than twice the size of London -- could drift towards a remote island where a scientist ...