I keep my Mont Helios jacket on the back of my seat at every meal because it is warm enough to wear outside over the top of my dinner outfit when rare species – blue whales, Ross seals – appear at the ...

Due to the extremely cold climate, Lake Unter-See remains covered in ice year-round.

On the ship I boarded at the bottom of Argentina with the three men I love most, I put my socks in a drawer, my sweaters on a ...

Antarctica, the planet's largest repository of meteorites, is beginning to hide them under the ice due to global warming.

An eight-week voyage to the bottom of the Earth helped the photojournalist Chang W. Lee better understand his late father.

Silversea is reimagining how travellers reach Antarctica with The Cormorant at 55 South, a purpose‑built, 150‑room hotel in Puerto Williams, Chile ...

Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on ...

Scientists estimate that Earth contains more than 100 million lakes, but few are as unusual as Lake Unter-See in Antarctica Located in Queen Maud Land, between the Anuchin and Ober-See glaciers, Lake ...

Scientists have drawn up the most accurate map of Antarctica, offering background to the continent’s response to climate change.

On the morning of the deadliest avalanche in California’s modern history, Cody Townsend was skiing above the west shore of ...

In January, in the middle of the week-long subfreezing temps and the snow that froze into ice, one of my sons gave me a belated Christmas gift, Alfred Lansing’s “Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible ...

For decades, scientists have been studying intriguing “gravity holes,” which are enormous depressions in the Earth’s crust where the effects of gravity are significantly lower than average. It’s an ...