The Southern Ocean is one of the most remote places on Earth, but that doesn’t mean it is tranquil. Tumultuous waves that can swallow vessels ensure that the Antarctic Peninsula has a constant drone ...

Quick Take African penguins faced an eight-year die-off from 2004 to 2011, with about 62,000 adults dying mainly from ...

Fire and Ash’ in theaters, THR travels back across the director’s wildly influential career for a definitive ranking.

Cameron Beall is a writer, marketer, photographer, and creative with over a year of experience with Southern Living in the realm of homes and home building. She was infatuated by home design from a ...

Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, stealing seconds at a time during around-the-clock parenting, getting winks on the wing ...

Beneath the ice of Antarctica, scientists discover a “fish city” with protected nests more than 950 feet deep.

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

Since most of our planet is comprised of water - with the ocean making up over 70% of the Earth’s surface - there’s a lot to be discovered in the sea, and it’s a place that captivates at every turn.

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ice in Antarctica — the oldest dated ice on the planet. The collaborative ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In May 2014, NASA announced at a press conference that a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appeared to have reached a point of ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises the average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...

Shaina Sadai has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Hitz Family Foundation. Ambarish Karmalkar receives funding from National Science Foundation. When polar ice sheets melt, ...