ANTARCTICA

NGOs say Russia blocked a bid to create two huge marine protected areas off the Antarctic the size of India.

Over the next 2,000 years, when the Earth is one full degree warmer, sea levels will be more than 2 meters higher than current levels.

A huge iceberg, which sheared away from Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier earlier this week, is now floating in the Amundsen Sea.

Scientists and politicians will meet this week to debate two marine protected areas off Antarctica. Each would be the world’s largest.

A new study shows how most of Antarctica’s ice shelves are melting from the underside due to warm ocean waters.

Need some ideas for your summer vacation? Here are five destinations in the U.S. and five abroad that will be extra hot in 2013.

While the Arctic sea ice has been retreating over the past couple of decades, Antarctic sea ice has been expanding. What gives?

Kate Upton stripped down for a chilly Antarctica shoot for the 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover.

Did the British Royal Navy actually "rescue" the Norwegian-owned cruise ship MS Fram from ice off of Antarctica?

Millions of years ago, the ice-covered Antarctica was much warmer and wetter than it is today, claimed a recent study. The climate along the edges of the frozen continent was even suitable to support substantial vegetation including stunted trees.

The thrill of walking in the footsteps of Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott has put Antarctica back on the tourist map this year.

The collapse of an ice sheet in Antarctica up to 14,650 years ago might have caused sea levels to rise between 14 and 18 meters (46-60 feet), a study showed on Wednesday, data which could help make more accurate climate change predictions.

Plants and animals hitching on the clothes of tourists and scientists are invading Antarctica, according to a new study.

In the pristine frozen continent of Antarctica scientists fear an alien invasion -- not from outer space, but carried in people's pockets and bags.

Surprisingly it's not the fear of UFO's from outer space touching down on the continent of Antarctica, but fear of the human race. Tourists that accidentally bring seeds and plants with them could threaten the ecosystem of the frozen land.

The race is on to discover life in the most remote and extreme environment known on Earth.

Russian explorers confirmed Wednesday that they breached Lake Vostok, a body of water 3.5 kilometers (2.2 miles) beneath the Antarctic surface.

Russian scientists have succeeded in drilling into the 20 million-year-old Lake Vostok, an expedition over a decade in the making.

After two decades, Russian scientists have finally drilled through 13,000 feet of an Antarctic ice sheet to reach Lake Vostok, deemed the most alien lake on Earth, which has been sealed off from the planet's atmosphere for 20 million years.

Happy Feet Two may be set in Antarctica, but it's only a lukewarm effort.

Scientists are closely watching Antarctica's fast-flowing Thwaites Glacier, as they say its retreat is expected to speed up within 20 years when it separates from an underwater ridge that is presently holding it back.