This was Day 2 of the Great World Race, a grueling test of mental and physical stamina in which participants vie to complete ...

Times journalists are accompanying a group of scientists on an arduous, weekslong trip to study a key glacier in Antarctica.

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

The seven continents on Earth – Europe, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, South America, North America, and Africa – are often ...

An explorer and a glaciologist are kite-skiing across Antarctica with a ground-penetrating radar to gather data that will ...

For Antarctic veterans and novices alike, the first sighting of an iceberg on an expedition stays “closest to your heart.” ...

A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s ...

Save for a precious few airlines in this world, there are virtually no scheduled flights to the seventh continent of Earth, ...

Anthropogenic warming is projected to intensify disproportionately in polar regions relative to the global average — a ...

Where to go — and where to avoid — in 2026, plus what’s changing in flights and trains, how not to be that traveler, and what ...

A ship carrying nearly 40 scientists will spend a month doing research at the edge of the Antarctic ice. There are goals but no guarantees, and plenty of perils.

Species with thinner protective barriers may need fewer resources and tend to have a greater ability to adapt to new habitats ...