Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

About 4,000 scientists travel around the vast, ice-covered continent of Antarctica each year to look at topics ranging from climate change to the search for dark matter, and prior to 2007, they were ...

With the US joining Israel in strikes on Iran, we take a look at where you might want to head if the conflict escalates.

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Researchers identified the widespread presence of the ionophore resistance genes narA and narB in over 2,400 bacterial ...

This map is a Spilhaus projection, showing the world's seas and oceans as a single body of water, centred on Antarctica and ...

June was filled with joy and gratitude—from winning journalism awards to celebrating meaningful time with family in New York ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015 ...

A sudden salinity spike in the Southern Ocean is accelerating Antarctic ice loss and triggering a dangerous climate feedback ...

They're in the headlines every week—critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and the rare earth elements ...

It is easier to find your geographical middle if you only need to deal with one nation. Still, there are plenty of methods to ...

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater near the surface could help explain some of the decrease in Antarctic sea ...