A video offering a rare glimpse into daily life during the polar winter in Antarctica has captivated millions on TikTok, showing how one woman copes with months of total darkness—by visiting a ...

Dartmouth graduate student Jacob Chalif is far from home this holiday season. He’s in Antarctica on a mission to find the world’s oldest ice. “It’s certainly a unique experience,” he said. “Everything ...

Every year, from March to September, a 43-mile stretch of the planet becomes trapped in darkness. Polar winter, scientists like to call it. This chunk, named Ross Island, is one of the most decorated ...

A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand. There is nothing else alive around it. All it can see is a wall of ice reaching 20 metres up into the sky. It is cold. Survival is hard ...