In Antarctica, the Crud is a natural hazard
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MCMURDO STATION, Antarctica  - The hazards of this hostile continent include ice, fire, wind and whiteout. And then there's the Crud.
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Few sane people want to visit a storm-tossed Bering Sea, the sizzling Sahara Desert and Canada's Northwest Territories in January. Experiencing them from a comfortable chair in front of a flat-screen television, however, is all the rage.
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Ice threatened to trap a damaged  Japanese whaling ship stranded off Antarctica, anti-whaling  activists said on Monday, raising fears of an environmental  disaster close to a major penguin colony.
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A scientific scramble is under way to clarify whether the erosion of the worldâs most vulnerable ice sheets can continue to accelerate.
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Each November, John W. Schutt flies to Antarctica to join a team of geologists who search for meteorites. His mission is to ensure that they make it back alive.
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A groping Santa, a drunken car chase, a bloody punchout. Festivities in Antarctica got a little out of hand this Christmas.
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OSLO, Norway - November in Norway is full of hazards. Ice-slicked streets, moose on the roads and fierce cold.
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Scientists were watching on Monday for a collision between a giant iceberg and an Antarctic glacier, which could free up sea lanes to America's McMurdo Station and help penguins reach crucial feeding areas.
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Large colonies of micro-organisms living under rocks have been discovered in the most hostile and extreme regions of the Arctic and Antarctic - giving new insights on survival of life on other planets.
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A new study finds that rising temperatures are in danger of wiping out the king penguins of Antarctica
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An ice sheet in Antarctica that is the world's largest &#151; with enough water to raise global sea levels by 200 feet &#151; is relatively stable and poses no immediate threat, according to new research.
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A remnant of the largest iceberg ever recorded is blocking Antarctica&#39;s McMurdo Sound, threatening tens of thousands of penguin chicks with
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Rising seas, spreading deserts, intensifying weather and other harbingers of climate change are threatening cultural landmarks from Canada to Antarctica, the World Monuments Fund said Wednesday.
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Australian scientists predicted four months ago that climate patterns could trigger mass strandings of marine mammals around the Southern Ocean.
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Antarctic glaciers are thinning and slipping ever faster into the sea, according to several new studies. Warmer air and sea temperatures are blamed, and the changes are expected to cause an appreciable rise in sea levels.
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The next report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should deal with the "frightening" possibility that both Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets start melting at the same time, the chief U.N. climate scientist said Tuesday
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WASHINGTON - Glaciers in Antarctica are thinning faster than they did in the 1990s and researchers have discovered an unexpected folded section deep beneath the ice cap, findings that may indicate the ice is less stable than had been thought.