Brits set South Pole rematch 97 years after Amundsen
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Frostbite and hundreds of miles of icy crevasses pose timeless dangers in a new international race to the South Pole nearly a century after Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen beat Britain's Robert Scott to reach it.
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Politics: 1 January 2005, Saturday. Bulgarian alpinists Doichin Vassilev and Lyubomir Ivanov have topped the 1111m Zograph Peak on the Antarctic island of Livingston.
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A DNA survey aims to identify descendants of Britons who settled in Russia hundreds of years ago.
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By Barry, Patrick Finding a single heavy antimatter nucleus could revolutionize cosmology When summer comes to Antarctica this December, a group of physicists there will launch an enormous balloon carrying a scientific instrument through Earth's atmosphere to the edge of space.
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Blog: No need to reset your watch yet, but redistribution of ocean mass could make days a fraction of a second shorter in the next 200 years.
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As global warming melts the Arctic ice, dreams of a short sea passage to Asia - and riches beneath the surface - have been revived. But who will win the world's new Great Game?
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This summer, a science team set out on a two-week expedition of Earth's own little version of Jupiter's moon Europa -- the Borup Fiord Pass at Ellesmere Island, a place hidden high above the rest of the world in the Canadian High Arctic. The team, headed by Canadian geologists Drs.
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Science & environment: UK, France and Russia plan to exploit new UN rules to claim huge swaths of ocean.
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British scientists find global warming is melting the ice of Antarctica faster than  previously thought.
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RENO, Nevada  - The search for missing adventurer  Steve Fossett resumed on Wednesday as his friend, British  billionaire Richard Branson, tried to find him through a  satellite mapping service offered by Google.
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Updated photos from the Mars rovers allow us to look back at the three-year mission.
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PUNTA ARENAS, Chile -- The worst of the ozone hole has pulled back once more to Antarctica this southern spring, leaving behind a shadow of uncertainty for the people living at the bottom of the Americas.
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Scientists believe a 50-million-year record of the Earth's climate lies in an underwater mountain chain in the ice-clogged waters near the North Pole.
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Plant material and pink ice found at the bottom of the ice sheet under this wind-swept camp could give scientists an unprecedented look at life that&#39;s
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By The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Dec. 10--When President John F. Kennedy challenged America to go to the moon in 1962, it was in the middle of the Cold War and the Soviet Union's space program was well ahead of ours. Americans worried about a "space gap" and Soviet domination of the heavens.
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British adventurer and swimmer Lewis Gordon Pugh on Sunday became the first person to swim in the icy waters of the North Pole, to raise awareness of how global warming is effecting the polar ice cap.
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There's new evidence from an Antarctic ice core that the popular image of the melting poles doesn't quite fit reality at the southern one. Elizabeth R. Thomas of the British Antarctic Survey and colleagues report in Geophysical Research Letters that snow accumulation has doubled since 1850 in the western Antarctic peninsula, and that the trend [...].