Explore Antarctic Extremes

The NOVA team in Antarctica visits Big Razorback Island, where a colony of playful seals give them an unforgettable experience.

Explore this spectacular, icy cave.

Members of the NOVA team are headed to Antarctica to report on science research at the bottom of the Earth. Here's their first dispatch.

The NOVA team's attempt to film a penguin colony didn't quite go according to plan.

The NOVA team explores one of the most perplexing formations in the Antarctica Dry Valleys: Blood Falls.

Beneath the frozen Antarctic ice, Earth’s plate tectonic machinery roars. Mt. Erebus, the southernmost active volcano in the world, is a window into this internal machinery.

Together, all the cars on Earth would leave quite the pile of carbon behind—every day.

Members of the NOVA team are headed to Antarctica to report on science research at the bottom of the Earth. Here's their second dispatch.

Thwaites Glacier is melting fast. But to understand how climate change is driving its decline, scientists need to send instruments through 2,000 feet of ice into the water below.

Join scientists on a quest to discover what Earth’s climate was like in the past — and where we might be headed.

As the C-17 plane door opened, NOVA’s science editor looked upon what looked like a painting of a faraway planet.

Unpredictable weather and old-school internet create out of the ordinary conditions for living and research.

Paleontologist Kirk Johnson explores the dynamic history—and future—of ice at the poles.