BEIJING -- As China's Qinling Station, the youngest of the country's five scientific research stations in the Antarctic, ...

Based on the current pledges of countries for limiting their emissions of greenhouse gases, global temperatures are projected to reach 2.7 degrees Celsius beyond pre-industrial levels by the end of ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

When Eric Sun and Jennifer Liu, avid travelers who met in college, decided to marry, there was one continent left on their ...

Only a few expedition cruise companies offer trips with an opportunity to ski in Antarctica. Here's what it's like to see a ...

All of these changes, we can plot them and if we look exponentially, we see catastrophic effects in the next few years, ...

"Unexpected changes being observed in East Antarctica." Scientists observe concerning 'unexpected changes' in Antarctic ice ...

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

Blood Falls in Antarctica flows unpredictably with iron-rich, salty water. Microbes inside survive without sunlight.

While colder temperatures have been recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica (minus 128.6 degrees on July 21, 1983) and Klink ...

The amount of water available for domestic use, farming and industrial processes will be impacted as glaciers act as a significant source of freshwater ...

The training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano (A-71) has set out to celebrate its ninetieth anniversary by crossing, for the ...