Isolation, frigid temperatures and old food are small prices to pay for the opportunity to do research in Antarctica.

About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an ...

For most of the year, South Africa's SANAE IV research station is one of the most isolated places on Earth: cut off from the ...

Visitors to Australia are often shocked at having to declare an apple or wooden item under our biosecurity policies.

Fram2 crew was surprised to not see any evidence of human activity at the South Pole from 285 miles above. For the first time ...

Some of the more sparsely populated territories in the world that do little trade with the United States have been caught up ...

A crew of four private astronauts have become the first to ever fly over the Earth's poles in space, gaining a sublime view ...

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been ...

The Trump administration hit the remote Australian territory Heard Island and McDonald Islands with a 10% tariff, but no ...