For comparison, $28 trillion is a shade less than the sum of all goods and services produced in the United States last year.

A team of scientists took a state-of-the-art research vessel to the Antarctic and found a colossal squid lurking in the depths there.

In just a week, the dollar has gone from a safe haven to investors' whipping boy as US President Donald Trump's chaotic tariffs on friend and foe alike undermine decades of trust in the world's ...

City leaders held a news conference Friday to discuss what is expected to be a multi-million-dollar effort to repair damaged roads, clean up parks and restore public spaces ahead of the 151st ...

The agency has nixed grants for a book on the Antarctic, a history of agrichemicals and the origins of the environmental justice movement. Environmental scholarship is shrinking as the Trump ...

The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 miles (510 kilometers) across. Researchers have been trying to explain its existence since the ...

This photo taken on Feb 7, 2024 shows the launch ceremony of the China's Qinling Station in Antarctica. China's Qinling Station in Antarctica, the country's fifth research station in the continent ...

No human is known to have set foot there since 2016 Sydney: A pair of sub-Antarctic volcanic islands unexpectedly hit by Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs may be the world’s most inhospitable ...

This is a bonus edition of Space Minds by SpaceNews. This week we’re at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs where we’ll record an episode Monday through Thursday. Sign up for The China ...

Ready for the adventure of a lifetime? Ponant Explorations plans to sail all the way around Antarctica. The company will undertake the feat with its icebreaker ship Le Commandant Charcot. The ...

US President Donald Trump’s massive government cuts are threatening the nation’s leadership at the ends of the Earth, say scientists who work in Antarctica. By presidential directives ...

The strongest ocean current on Earth circles Antarctica. It’s the primary way water moves between the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, and helps regulate the global climate. But a new study ...