WWF, the University of Strathclyde and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have teamed up for the pioneering project, which ...

A tourist on the beach at Playa del Carmen in Mexico had some animal company while eating: a cheeky raccoon simply helped ...

Within Sweden's borders, there are 269 glaciers, some extending over the border with Norway, covering an area of ​​approx. 250 km2.

What animals live in the coldest areas of the planet? We've done the research! Meet the animals thriving in earth's polar ...

Depending on how old you are, you might remember having to pull out a paper map to find your way around a place. Back then, ...

The iceberg cometh. The spinning iceberg is approximately 1,500 square miles in size and located about 173 miles from the ...

A wall of ice the size of Rhode Island is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals.

Antarctica’s role as the best place to see Emperor Penguins is not solely due to its unparalleled landscapes and wildlife encounters but also rooted in the continent’s status as a protected haven for ...

Antarctica is a place of superlatives—it’s the coldest, highest, driest, and windiest continent on Earth. Though few plants and animals can survive on its shores, its oceans are full of ...

For instance, in the warm, calm eastern part of the Dotson ice shelf in west Antarctica, an autonomous robot observed basal terraces. In the west of Dotson – which experiences cold, fast ...

Though animals such as the glass sponges in Antarctica are estimated to be much older, they are not measured to the accuracy that bristlecone pines are. According to the U.S. Department of ...

Now known as Prometheus, the tree was found to be nearly 5,000 years old. That means Prometheus came into existence around the time humans were exiting the Stone Age and beginning to work with bronze.