Pakistan has wielded the threat of nuclear retaliation as its go-to deterrent whenever conventional military pressure mounts.

Rudy Click, leader of Camel City United Indivisible in Winston-Salem, expressed alarm — but not surprise — when he learned of potential legal threats against the organization. “We have an ...

There are "many ways that microplastics might be harmful to humans," according to Geoscience Professor Nan Crystal Arens.

Female emperor penguins lay a single pear-shaped egg early in the Antarctic winter when temperatures can dip to minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit and winds can reach hurricane force. Needing to ...

The Tasman Sea's winter temperatures can influence heat flow to the Antarctic Peninsula through atmospheric ripple effects.

Chile has issued an evacuation alert for a remote southern coast region after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the area. The ...

SANTIAGO >> A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile in the Drake Passage between Cape Horn and Antarctica at ...

A strong offshore earthquake caused a tsunami scare in the far south of Chile and Argentina on Friday, with authorities ...

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile in the Drake Passage between Cape Horn and Antarctica at a depth of ...

BREAKING NEWS JUST INTO THE NEWSROOM. NOW FROM KNOXVILLE SCHOOLS. ALL STUDENTS HAVE BEEN DISMISSED AFTER A POSSIBLE THREAT FORCED THE DISTRICT INTO A LOCKDOWN THIS AFTERNOON. THE SUPERINTENDENT ...

During Antarctica’s warm season, the sleek Norwegian passenger ship known as the MS Fridtjof Nansen departs regularly from Argentina for its journey south across the turbulent Drake Passage ...

Researchers aboard the RSV Nuyina are on a two-month mission to better understand a massive Antarctic glacier. Australian Antarctic Division Armed with lab equipment and two months of food and ...