For more than a decade scientists have documented how Antarctic sea ice has been retreating because of human-caused climate change. Now a team of Canadian and Chilean scientists is returning to Punta ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas James (left) is the chief scientist of a Canadian-Chilean expedition to the Antarctic with the Geological Survey of Canada.

Heavy snow warning as up to 10 inches to strike — travel impossible I was in the women's restroom when a man came in and called out a question that left me nauseated William Shatner turns 95 and gives ...

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An eight-week voyage to the bottom of the Earth helped the photojournalist Chang W. Lee better understand his late father. Shooting stars and the southern night sky over the Southern Ocean on the trip ...

In Antarctica, the word “surreal” comes to mind endlessly. Gentoo penguins leap out of the water as I board a Zodiac next to my expedition ship. Brilliant morning sunshine glints off the snowy ...

Alcohol could have played a part in the death of a French Antarctic expeditioner who jumped off a docked research vessel. The body of the 23-year-old man was recovered by police divers at Sullivans ...

AT the present moment the Antarctic problem is mainly that of the forthcoming expeditions, and during their preparation every fact bearing upon the conditions, physical and official, in which the ...