Here are ten animals with the highest populations on Earth. Some are quite familiar. You have never heard of some others, ...

A new study says rule changes designed to reduce opioid overdose deaths in British Columbia in 2016, inadvertently harmed cancer and palliative-care patients by reducing their access to pain killers.

Explore budget-friendly options for cruising to Antarctica. Regular cruise lines offer a cheaper way to see the Antarctic Peninsula, but they lack the true experience of landing and engaging with ...

Deep in the frozen wilderness of Antarctica lies a 'pyramid' that has baffled both scientists and conspiracy theorists alike.

A TOWERING mountain that rises suddenly from the flat Amazon rainforest is cloaked in mystery. Cerro el Cono, the steep ...

This incident underscores a stark reality: Under some climate scenarios, scientists predict, 80 percent of Antarctica’s emperor penguin colonies will disappear by the turn of the century.

Alicia Cebrian, director of SENAPRED, said an "instrumental tsunami" was recorded in the Prat Base in Antarctica, with a variation of 6 centimeters (2.3 inches) in sea level.

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile in the Drake Passage between Cape Horn and Antarctica at a depth of just 10 km (6 miles) on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said, ...

Four key glacier basins in East Antarctica showed significant growth due to increased snowfall. The mass gain briefly contributed to a decrease in global sea level rise, according to satellite data.

Cerro El Cono is a solitary, pyramidal hill in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest whose origins remain mysterious and that holds ...

Chile Cancels Tsunami Alert After Quake Triggered Evacuations in Antarctica and Far South By Alexander Villegas and Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chilean authorities canceled evacuation ...

A view of the Great Pyramid of Khufu (also spelled Cheops) on the Giza Plateau on the southwestern outskirts of the capital Cairo. Picture: AFP/ Mohamed El-Shahed Some tourists have taken to ...