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Antarctica served as a climatic refuge for animals during the world's largest known, and probably global warming-fueled, mass extinction event, according to new research that focused on one scrappy survivor.
A new fossil species suggests that some land animals may have survived the end-Permian extinction by living in cooler climates in Antarctica. Researchers have identified a distant relative of mammals that apparently survived the mass extinction by living in Antarctica.
The U.S. Navy did not allow female scientists to travel to Antarctica until 1969.
Sunflower School’s science club got a glimpse into the life of a CReSIS researcher who lives in Antarctica and gathers data on the ice sheets in the southern hemisphere.
CAMBRIDGE, England, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- A group of international scientists has published what it calls the first comprehensive review of Antarctica's climate and its relationship to global warming.
WOODS HOLE, Mass., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Three journalists are at the Palmer Research Station in Antarctica this week to document signs of climate change.
'Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment'The first comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate and its relationship to the global climate system is published this week (Tuesday 1 December) by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).
Find out how one distant ancestor of mammals beat the heat during one of the world's worst mass extinctions.
Two seniors from Hunters Lane High School are leaving for Antarctica the day after Christmas to study climate change.
Ships in the southern Pacific Ocean have been 'put on alert' in recent days as maritime authorities monitor the menacing movements of literally hundreds of huge icebergs drifting slowly toward New Zealand from Antarctica.
It's easy to get mixed up when talking to Paul D. Miller. You want to call him DJ Spooky, or Spooky, and you almost want...
A flotilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic ice shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose a risk to ships in the south Pacific Ocean, officials said Tuesday.
Fifty years after 12 countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, TIME looks back at who discovered the coldest place on earth -- and who remains in a place where the average temperature is -58°F
Explorer Ernest Shackleton's cabin in Antarctica is slowly deteriorating. While working to remove ice from underneath the hut that was causing fungus to grow, scientists made an interesting discovery -- cases of whisky that had fused to the underlying rock. Freelance journalist Emily Stone describes the find.
An important report from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) shows things aren’t always what they seem to be, and that our knowledge of our complex Earth is not a good as we thought. Sometimes problems are not what they seem to be, and sometimes a problem in one sense carries unknown benefits in other senses. The BAS is a global leader in studying the Antarctic, and it has recently published the ...
Photo by Mike Figgis If Paul D. Miller was an insect, he'd have extraordinarily long antennae. Miller, who makes music under the name DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, is a walking encyclopedia of music, known for a catholicity of taste that makes room for everyone from John Cage to Kool Keith. And his expansive curiosity extends beyond the cultural, to the environmental and political; his newest ...
