When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

And, whereas Shackleton had been part of a large expedition ... spent hours poring over maps, laying out a precise route for the expedition. The more he studied Antarctica, the more forbidding ...

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.

A lot of the weather information Americans rely on starts with real-time data collected by NOAA satellites, airplanes, ...

The Icy Wilderness Under Threat The Arctic and Antarctic are two of the most unique and fragile ecosystems on our planet.

Adaptation can also involve changing how and where people live, prohibiting them from rebuilding in areas that repeatedly ...

January’s record heat highlights how human-driven ocean warming is increasingly overwhelming natural climate cooling patterns ...

The 'Titanic' sinking became the most infamous shipwreck in history—but what really happened on that unusually calm night in ...

Courage built a lot of new pubs in the period after World War II, as documented in a volume held at Bristol’s central library ...

Current Fish & Oyster sits in downtown Salt Lake City, a city known more for its stunning mountain views and world-class skiing than its seafood scene. But don’t let that fool you.

The Greenland Ice Sheet is cracking open more rapidly as it responds to climate change. Dr Tom Chudley, in our Department of Geography, led a new ...