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

Discover how the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, survives extreme cold through unique adaptations.

What's the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? A research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment.

Despite Antarctica not belonging to any state, as many as seven countries have made historical territorial claims on it.

Pyramiden is a ghost town on an island in the Arctic Glacial Sea. It was a mining settlement originally belonging to Sweden until 1927, when it was sold to the Soviet Union. In 1998, it ceased ...

When I first started there was sawdust always on the floor and if they raked it once a week that was good! But our shops now are very clean and very pleasant places to work in. You can never tell ...

More than half of the world's people live in cities. By 2050, it will be nearly seven in ten. Cities account for more than 70% of global carbon emissions and 60-80% of energy consumption. Rapid ...