Even one of the most remote corners of the planet isn't safe from plastic pollution anymore. A new study detected microplastics floating in the air above the Beagle Channel in South America, marking ...

Zack Fairhurst claims to have swum more than a thousand miles to reach Point Nemo, the farthest spot from land on Earth.

In Kitty Sewell's debut, Ice Trap (Reviews, Oct. 8), Welsh surgeon Dafydd Woodruff unearths some disturbing secrets in a Canadian Arctic outpost, where 14 years earlier he had served as a physician.

ANTARCTICA (AP) — The Southern Ocean is one of the most remote places on Earth, but that doesn't mean it is tranquil. Tumultuous waves that can swallow vessels ensure that the Antarctic Peninsula has ...

There are still places on Earth that feel almost too strange to be real - abandoned cities resting beneath the sea, enormous ...