Visitor numbers to Antarctica could reach 450,000 a year within a decade, according to one scenario. How do we stem the tide?

Emperor penguin populations are falling much faster than expected. Ice is melting beneath their chicks before they’re ready.

Researchers from the University of Murica (Murica, Spain), the Carlos III Health Institute (Madrid, Spain), and the University of Siena (Siena, Italy) evaluated the concentration of polychlorinated ...

The unusual radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, a range of instruments flown on balloons high above Antarctica that are designed to detect ...

An anhinga, a tropical bird rarely seen in Colorado, is taking a vacation at a private Boulder County pond to the delight of Denver-area birdwatchers.

Antarctica holds two-thirds of the world’s fresh water. For years, it was considered relatively stable — a vast, ancient ice sheet that wouldn’t melt for millennia.

Submarine canyons around Antarctica tend to have less sea ice, higher sea surface temperatures, and more biomass such as phytoplankton blooms than the shelves they cut into. Phytoplankton blooms ...

The Antarctic Treaty has kept the continent from being militarized. But cracks are beginning to show in the agreement. We tagged along on a mission with the Royal Canadian Navy and more than a ...

The creature was spotted about 7,000 feet below the surface of the Weddell Sea, a remote area near the Antarctic peninsula. Researchers have yet to confirm the squid's sex or age based on the footage.

Bird watchers look for an anhinga that has been spotted in ponds along North 95th street in Boulder County near Lafayette on June 10, 2025. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post) ...

It was frozen in time. Antarctica wasn’t always a desolate icescape. International researchers announced the discovery of an over 30-million-year-old lost world beneath the Antarctic ice that ...

No Antarctic gonate squid had ever been seen alive before, as far as the team was aware. They followed it for a couple of minutes and made sure to record it on video, capturing the creature’s ...