BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) – This has been the busiest summer in history for Antarctic expeditions, with dozens of skiers reaching the end of the Earth to mark the centennial of man’s first journey ...

The fall climbing season has ended in the Himalayas, home to the fourteen 8,000-meter peaks – the highest mountains in the world. While some ambitious mountaineers will attempt winter climbs on ...

The Antarctic summer runs from late November through March, when the sun burns 24-hours per day and temperatures hover around -20°C (-29°F). This period opens climbing season on Mt. Vinson - the ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — The last U.S. Air Force transport aircraft journeyed home on March 7 after a busy summer in Christchurch. From this New Zealand city, the Air Force made frequent flights to ...

Scientists from the Scripps Polar Center at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography are undertaking groundbreaking field research in Antarctica this season. The onset of the Antarctic ...

The Antarctic winter sea ice maximum is on track to be the second lowest on record, at 17.15 million square km² (6.62 million mi²), close to the 2023 record low of 16.96 million km² (6.55 million mi²) ...

All over the world, the climate is changing. As the world gets warmer, pools of meltwater have begun to form on glaciers. Scientists have now used computational models to show that snow that is ...

Research led by polar scientists from Northumbria University has revealed new hope in natural environmental systems found in ...

One of the big environmental stories of 2012 was the record melting of sea ice in the Arctic, which reached its smallest extent this summer since satellite data began being kept in the late 1970s. But ...

During the Northern Hemisphere’s winter, a summer of a sort comes to the great white continent of Antarctica, bringing 24-hour-a-day sunshine and a brief, spongy softening of the coastal pack ice.