Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more ...

Our planet is divided into seven continents, each with its own unique landscapes, cultures, and ecosystems. From the frozen ...

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.

Today on CNN 10, we check on four Greek islands rocked by earthquakes and tremors that have sent tourists evacuating to the mainland. We also learn how indigenous groups around Africa’s Lake Albert ...

But where would these plant remnants come from in the icy desert of Antarctica? The drill core, obtained during a 2017 expedition to West Antarctica with the Polarstern research vessel, turns previous ...

Clegg Industries, founded by John and Judy Clegg, has conquered yet another continent after a recent trip to the icy tundra ...

Discover why Antarctica is the driest continent on Earth, with an average annual precipitation of just 50 millimetres.

Kim Young-mi (44), the captain of the North Face athlete team, has successfully completed a solo crossing of the Antarctic continent, increasing interest in the clothing and equipment he used.

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...