A new study shows that the Southern Ocean releases far more carbon dioxide in winter than once thought. By combining laser ...

Step out of a helicopter onto a never-before-seen island in Antarctica’s distant south during this expert-led tour around ...

Explorer Colin O’Brady is surrounded by duffel bags and dozens of neatly labeled bags of dried ramen while sitting down for a ...

The name Antarctica dates back centuries—and it wasn’t just about ice. It came from ancient ideas about balance, geography, ...

Step out of a helicopter onto a never-before-seen island in Antarctica’s distant south during this expert-led tour around ...

Antarctica, and the treaty that protects it, have been in the news of late – but for all the wrong reasons, argues Professor ...

Microbes near the surface of the Southern Ocean sustain the polar food chain — impacting the nutrient flow from the surface to the depths where other microbial communities thrive in the dark. National ...

The case began way back in 2002 with the extraordinary collapse of an ice shelf called Larsen B in the eastern Antarctic ...

From Lewis Hamilton to Prince Harry, stars are increasingly striking the White Continent off their bucket lists.

When an Antarctic glacier was sparked into rapid retreat three years ago, it left scientists scratching their heads as to ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on Earth in East Antarctica, dating back six million years.

Australia said on Friday that scientists had seen symptoms consistent with the destructive H5 bird flu strain on its sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean, after unusual levels of deaths of ...