Gerry Leape directs the Antarctic Krill Conservation Project for the Pew Environment Group. (McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) In 1959, a dozen nations agreed on the peaceable use of the ...

Eight years after her last major expedition to Antarctica, biologist Terrie Williams is back on the ice. This time, however, her team began the expedition during the Antarctic winter, the harshest ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers are among the leaders of a major Antarctic research project in which scientists will drill through a half-mile of ice to penetrate subglacial Lake Whillans and study hidden ...

BEIJING, April 20 (Reuters) - China will complete a new research station in the interior of Antarctica next year, state media said on Sunday, expanding its presence on the continent. The official ...

Summer in Antarctica is much like winter in Duluth, except for the 24-hour-a-day sunlight. That's the take from University of Minnesota Duluth geological sciences professor John Goodge, who is set to ...