Penguins are typically flightless but in this award-winning clip, hundreds of them defied their own limitation by taking a ...

Polar Class goes from PC1 to PC7 — and the first thing to remember is PC1 is the top ranking. This is particularly important ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

King Charles—long a champion of sustainable farming and organic cooking —turned to world-renowned chef Francesco Mazzei for the menu. The palace noted that Mazzei was inspired by Italian-American ...

South Georgia is a resurrected wonderland of Southern Ocean fauna after the ravages of the sealing and whaling eras. Today it ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

Pure water is flowing for the first time in the remote village of Katchuat, South Sudan, after young people in eastern Idaho teamed up to help transform lives in one of the poorest nations on Earth.

This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s voyage, and ...

The world's largest iceberg is moving towards a remote British penguin sanctuary north of Antarctica. Read more.

Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might ...

As climate change brings more boats to the Arctic, the U.S.'s need for boats that can cut through the ice has also increased.

In politics, desert has become a useful noun, while adjectives help tell the story. As noted last week, a child care desert ...