
Bears, glaciers: Show pits man against Alaska
Dallas Seavey knows what it's like to mush across the wilds of Alaska. Now it remains to be seen how he survives being dropped off in the middle of ...

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 ...
Boy feared dead after falling in glacier crevasse
A 9-year-old boy on a snowmobile is feared dead after falling an estimated 200 feet into a crevasse on an Alaska glacier. Climbers descended into the ...

Barrick suffering big setbacks in Latin America
A Chilean court's halt to construction of Barrick Gold Corp.'s $8 billion, border-straddling mine on the high spine of the Andes is only the latest ...
Barrick halts work on mine after Chile court rules
Barrick Gold Corp. suspended construction on its Pascua Lama mine Wednesday after a Chilean court ruled in favor of indigenous communities that say ...

Latest Earth satellite launches from Calif. coast
A satellite launched into space Monday will keep closer tabs on Earth's glaciers, crops, forests and shorelines, continuing a tradition that began ...

Earth-observing satellite to launch from Calif.
Carrying on a four-decade tradition, a new Earth-observing satellite is set to provide another watchful eye over our planet's glaciers, forests, water ...
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 ...

Glacier park looks to influence Blackfeet drilling
On the edge of the Blackfeet Indian reservation, where the Rocky Mountains rise out of the Great Plains like shark's teeth, oil exploration companies ...