A deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that visited Antarctica has highlighted a growing tourism trend.

Antarctica's tourism is booming, attracting over 80,000 visitors. Experts warn this surge increases risks of contamination ...

For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from rapid ice melting, but then sea ice began to decline dramatically.

Today, Antarctica is the part of Earth with the coldest climate — a frigid landscape that also happens to be the driest and windiest environment on the planet.But millions of years ago, the continent ...

A common route is to voyage south from Argentina toward Antarctica before heading north up the coast of Africa — the same ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A portion of the world's iciest, coldest continent is "greening" at a dramatic rate because of global warming, scientists ...

Antarctica is being ravaged by a triple-whammy of climate chaos that has melted sea ice to record lows, a new study has ...

Tourists can threaten ecosystems by compacting soils, squashing fragile vegetation and bringing in non-native microbes and ...

It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost ...

My husband and I skipped Thanksgiving this year to visit our 7th continent together. Our kids, who've visited 25 countries with us, supported our dream and followed our trip virtually. It was a trip ...

Driven in part by fears that the frozen landscapes of Antarctica may be irreversibly melting away because of climate change, tourism to the bottom of the world is soaring. And experts warn ...