Snow and Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, 1998 Photograph by Gordon Wiltsie Jagged peaks pierce the icy expanse of Antarctica's Queen Maud Land.

Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov has arrived in Antarctica on what is Russia's first high-level visit to the ice-shielded continent.

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Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg inspected his country's research station in Antarctica on Saturday and Sunday and studied the influence of climate change on the frozen continent.

The Great Wall Marathon attracts a global field, but most Chinese runners cannot afford the entry fee Every marathon runner knows what it's like to hit the "wall", the point in a race where legs feel as heavy ...

"We can firmly say that today's concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane are 28 and 124 percent higher respectively than at any time during the last 800,000 years," said Thomas Stocker, an author of the ...

The polar bear just got listed as a threatened species, but veteran polar explorer Will Steger and the team he's leading in the Canadian Arctic found themselves threatened - by the bears.

Threat: Massive sheets of ice are breaking off the southern continent and floating out to sea.

First-time visitors to the Great Barrier Reef might think they've swum into an Impressionist painting.