Follow one scientist in the search for one particular pack of killer whales, because for him, this mission is personal ...

The Coast Guard’s heavy icebreaking cutter Polar Star and crew departed Seattle Nov. 22 on their annual deployment to support ...

Russian icebreakers with scientists from the BRICS group have set out from Cape Town and Rio Grande to Antarctica. They plan ...

The Polar Star (WAGB 10), a Seattle-based US Coast Guard Cutter, departed Friday for a months-long deployment to Antarctica.

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Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB-10) and crew departed Seattle on Friday, beginning their monthslong deployment to Antarctica in support of Operation Deep Freeze, an annual joint military mission ...

Picture Antarctica—not as an endless expanse of snow and ice, but as a lush, green rainforest teeming with towering trees and ...

Normally, Gus should weigh about 100 pounds, but when he was found on that Australian beach, he only weighed 51 pounds. In ...

This type of journey usually starts in Cape Town, South Africa, where you fly private to an ice runway on mainland Antarctica ...

The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia was released at sea 20 days after he waddled ashore ...

Wow, a recent article in The Baltimore Sun reports that fragments of amber have been found in Antarctica and it was suggested ...

Weatherproof jackets, waterproof gloves, merino wool everything—our intrepid writer’s polar wardrobe has her prepared for any ...