My grandparents are responsible for my love of travel. This visit to Antarctica felt the most meaningful of the trips they ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In fact, ...

A trio of researchers has found evidence of the impact of the Late Antique Little Ice Age on Iceland almost 1,500 years ago.

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

These new maps uncover tens of thousands of unknown underwater mountains and hills that shape deep-sea ecosystems and offer clues to Earth’s geologic past ... South America, and the Antarctic ...

For decades, scientists have measured the ACC in the Drake Passage, a narrow bottleneck between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula, where its flow is easiest to track. The results have ...

Newly introduced species are largely being found on the Antarctic Peninsula, where most tourists and scientists go. The peninsula has the mildest climate of the whole continent and is where Antarctica ...

The research, coordinated by the University of Siena, aims to reconstruct key events of geological history that took place in Antarctica, using the most "recent" landscape modeling, linked to the ...

This animation shows seafloor features derived from SWOT data on regions off Mexico, South America, and the Antarctic Peninsula ... to create these maps. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory The study ...

Scientists have recently uncovered a wondrous and vibrant underwater world, previously hidden beneath a massive glacier in Antarctica. The glacier, covering an area of about 510 sq.km. — roughly ...

Retired inventory of geospatial layers and web maps provided by the BAS Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) visualised in Airtable. Note: This project was designed for internal use ...

Credit: Alex Ingle / Schmidt Ocean Institute In January, an iceberg the size of Chicago splintered off from the Antarctic Peninsula and drifted away in ... SASHA MONTELLI: Yes, this was the first map ...