The "unique" way Antarctica’s only native insect survives the extreme cold could help humans travel deep into space, according to a new study. The tiny flightless Antarctic midge (Belgica antarctica) ...

In celebration of Black History Month in February, MPR News is highlighting Black history throughout the state. From a fur ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

South Georgia is a resurrected wonderland of Southern Ocean fauna after the ravages of the sealing and whaling eras. Today it ...

Does the combination of soaring traveller numbers and anti-tourist protests in some destinations show it’s time to reevaluate ...

The massive ice block is slowly moving from Antarctica ... expedition in late 2023, Meijers encountered the iceberg directly, describing it as "a huge white cliff, 40 or 50 metres high, that stretches ...

These ecosystems, which occupy permanently ice-free land covering less than ... how effective the Protocol can be in protecting Antarctica. "Beyond conservation, the study provides a foundation ...

[Matthew] I did not expect the food in Antarctica to be this excellent. Our guide Ethan is taking us to the ice cave today. It's a high cave of ice fields, rock stream landscapes, and quite a ...

The world’s biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that ... who led British expeditions to the southern continent.