The Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area in Sandy Springs, Georgia, is exactly that kind of wonderful contradiction.

Long before European colonizers sighted the continent, legendary explorer Hui Te Rangiora may have seen Antarctica.

SunStone Ships’ Ocean Victory will enter an extended layup at the port of Funchal, in Portugal’s Madeira Island. According to ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t see coming.

A tiny, obscure animal often sold as aquarium food has been quietly protecting our planet from global warming by undertaking ...

Authorities say two firefighters were killed and another was badly injured after they were ambushed and shot while responding ...

Islands are biodiversity hotspots. They only make up 5 percent of the world’s land mass, but they are home to 20 percent of ...

Today, the United States’ first gay travel company offers trips to Antarctica, New Zealand, the Galapagos Islands and Paris, among many other beloved and far-flung places. But it began 52 years ago ...

The Edinburgh-based firm, Christian Salvesen, operated whale processing ports at the aptly named Leith Harbour at Stromness ...

A new study challenges recent claims about dramatic "greening" in Antarctica and how this conflicts with decades of field-based ecological knowledge. The new opinion article, "Is Antarctica Greening?" ...

A new study challenges recent claims about dramatic "greening" in Antarctica and how this conflicts with decades of ...

An object bright enough to be seen streaking across the midday sky has fallen across parts of the Southeast U.S. The National ...