For a long time, scientists knew of a “gravity hole” beneath Antarctica—an area with particularly weak gravitational force. Considering the various threats currently faced by the region, scientists ...

From The Gambia to the US, sea salt is increasingly seeping into the freshwaters people need for drinking and producing food.

The eclipse travelled over Antarctica, meaning that it visible mostly to penguins, though the path of totality also stretched ...

At India’s AI Summit, panels are abuzz with talks of growth, technological revolution, global leadership. AI is framed as the next great leap: inevitable, transformative, touching everything from ...

“To our knowledge, the longest sediment cores previously drilled under an ice sheet are less than 10 m. We exceeded our ...

A marine researcher says he has video evidence of the first recorded shark in the Antarctic Ocean. Alan Jamieson says many ...

Forte and colleagues now believe Antarctica’s gravity hole was weaker before eventually intensifying around 30 to 50 million years ago. This corresponds to large-scale changes in the continent’s ...

An annular eclipse swept over a remote corridor of Antarctica on Feb. 17.

Team USA skiers Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin, along with Italy’s Federica Brignone, are among the many skiers who have expressed concern during these Olympic Games about the accelerating melt of ...

The Pacific Ocean is warming so quickly that scientists had to find a new method for detecting and predicting El Niño and La Niña events.

ILULISSAT, Greenland (AP) — Growing up in a village in northern Greenland, Jørgen Kristensen's closest friends were his stepfather's sled dogs. Most of his classmates were dark-haired Inuit; he was ...

Researchers uncover how slow changes deep inside Earth created Antarctica’s gravity anomaly and may even connect to ancient ...