From global volcanic events to past El Niño circulations to the presence of microbial life, scientists at NCPOR have been ...

The Gist: Will Smith is about to disembark from this ship, on his first visit to Antarctica. It’s part of his journey to all ...

Pangea may have vanished 200 million years ago, but it left a trail of clues in rocks, fossils, and even magnetic fields that ...

With its temperature of -50°C, the archive sanctuary built below the surface at Concordia will allow endangered ice cores ...

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...

Scientists tracking Earth’s water from space discovered that El Niño and La Niña are synchronizing floods and droughts across ...

Snakes have adapted to nearly every continent on Earth, thriving in a range of habitats, from steaming rainforests to arid ...

In virtually every piece of land on Earth—from near the summit of Mount Everest to Antarctica to caves nearly 2,000 meters ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, located in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), are among ...

World's largest iron ore deposit found to date transforms theories about ore formation and should generate trillions of ...

Instead, the most prolific period of glacial earthquakes at Thwaites, between 2018 and 2020, coincides with a period of accelerated flow of the glacier’s ice tongue towards the sea. The ice-tongue ...