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Antarctica is one of the world’s last great wildernesses but, even here, even at the South Pole, plastic is present ...

Norse Atlantic Airways operated the first 787 to Antarctica this week, bringing supplies and scientists to the Norwegian ...

A snowy morning in Omaha set the tone for the Durham Museum's new Antarctic dinosaur exhibit. The exhibit features life-sized dinosaur replicas. Visitors learned how the frozen Antarctic used to be a ...

One of the most vast glaciers in Antarctica, the Doomsday Glacier, has got an international team of scientists concerned ...

A Wisconsin doctor ran seven marathons on seven continents, from Antarctica to North America, to raise awareness of ...

Two BGSU students and their professor will spend much of spring semester in Antarctica studying undersea volcanoes.

An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

Discover how the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, survives extreme cold through unique adaptations.

Extensive evidence, including global temperature and sea ice data, shows Earth's climate is changing due to human activity.

Adaptation can also involve changing how and where people live, prohibiting them from rebuilding in areas that repeatedly ...

What's the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? A research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment.