A remote Australian territory, the islands do not have any permanent human residents. They do, however, have millions of penguins, seals, and other Antarctic wildlife. When President Donald Trump ...

President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs on Wednesday took aim at unlikely targets — a collection of remote Antarctic territories uninhibited by humans and best known for penguins, seabirds, ...

Strip away Antarctica’s ice and the familiar white disc at the bottom of the map dissolves into something far stranger: a ...

Art Wolfe crosses the infamous Drake Passage south of Cape Horn. It is spring on the Antarctic Peninsula and the frozen wilderness is a veritable nursery for penguins, shore birds and seal pups. In ...

A remote group of Antarctic islands has been identified as a target of President Donald Trump's new global tariffs, despite having a human population of zero. On Wednesday, April 2, the White House ...

President Donald Trump’s administration will likely usher in a new era of global trade relations following the announcement of reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday. However, one unexpected outcome of new ...

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated reciprocal tariffs in Australia. President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" unleashed widespread tariffs in a "declaration of economic ...

The rapid expansion, over-exploitation and subsequent decline in whale stocks in the northern hemisphere in the 20th century ...

If you ever find yourself hanging out on Antarctica's Danger Islands, we hope you like penguins. There's a lot of them there. If you ever find yourself hanging out on Antarctica's Danger Islands, we ...

Antarctica is about the size of the United States and Mexico combined, yet no one owns it. But that doesn’t mean it’s free for the taking. The 1959 Antarctic Treaty forbids claiming land there, but 7 ...