Polar bears eat ringed seals, so if baby seals keep dying off, eventually there will be a decline in the seal population, ...

Additionally, ancient humans may have ramped up their use of ochre. This naturally occurring pigment is composed of iron ...

When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off from one of Antarctica's massive floating glaciers in January, a team of scientists working nearby quickly pivoted, steering their ship to explore the ...

BELOIT — The discovery by a young man of a portion of a jaw in a cave in South Africa sent John Hawks on a journey toward the discovery of a new species of human ancestor. Twelve years after ...

The oldest cave formations formed primarily from summer ... especially the cooling of the Northern Hemisphere and growth of polar ice sheets. This cooling intensified the temperature difference ...

A pair of sub-Antarctic volcanic islands unexpectedly hit by Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs may be the world's most inhospitable spot for international trade. When Australia's remote, uninhabited ...

The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 miles (510 kilometers) across. Researchers have been trying to explain its existence since the ...

This photo taken on Feb 7, 2024 shows the launch ceremony of the China's Qinling Station in Antarctica. China's Qinling Station in Antarctica, the country's fifth research station in the continent ...

Professor Steven Chown and Dr Linda Armbrecht have received 2025 Academy honorific awards for their Antarctic research. Two distinguished researchers in the field of Antarctic science and conservation ...

The strongest ocean current on Earth circles Antarctica. It’s the primary way water moves between the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, and helps regulate the global climate. But a new study ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence suggests the subglacial hole is an impact crater measuring 315 miles across.