APNewsBreak: NY Air Guard unit being investigated
A high-profile New York Air National Guard airlift wing has promoted sexual abusers instead of punishing them, according to the retired officer who ...

Chile rushes to aid ship in Antarctica after fire
A Chilean military tugboat was heading to Antarctica on Thursday to prevent an environmental disaster by retrieving a Chinese fishing ship that caught ...

Antarctic team digs deep to predict climate future
Nancy Bertler and her team took a freezer to the coldest place on Earth, endured weeks of primitive living and risked spending the winter in Antarctic ...

Antarctica concerns grow as tourism numbers rise
Across most of Earth, a tourist attraction that sees 35,000 visitors a year can safely be labeled sleepy. But when it's Antarctica, every footstep ...

Ranulph Fiennes evacuated from Antarctica base
Veteran British explorer Ranulph Fiennes was being evacuated from Antarctica on Wednesday, days after he reluctantly pulled out of a polar expedition ...

Team braves wet, cold retracing Shackleton's steps
It's been lauded as one of the greatest survival stories of all-time. Nearly 100 years later, a group of British and Australian adventurers have ...

SI shoots on 7 continents for swimsuit issue
Few would think about swimming in Antarctica, but Sports Illustrated took its models there for its annual swimsuit issue — shooting on all seven ...
Wind, snow thwart search for plane in Antarctica
Hurricane-force winds and snow were preventing searchers Friday from reaching a plane believed to have crashed in an Antarctic mountain range while ...
Plane carrying 3 Canadians missing in Antarctica
Bad weather has forced rescuers to wait until Friday to try to reach a small plane believed to have crashed in an Antarctic mountain range while ...
Explorer's rare Scotch returned to Antarctic stash
Talk about whisky on ice: Three bottles of rare, 19th century Scotch found beneath the floor boards of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackelton's ...

British explorer embarks on Antarctica adventure
It's a six-month expedition in almost constant darkness, in the coldest place on the planet, with no chance of rescue if things go wrong.