Antarctica looks like the set of a science fiction epic, a continent of jagged ice cliffs, neon auroras and endless white horizons. Yet by the strict standards scientists use, it is not just a frozen ...

On a map, Antarctica reads like the final frontier, a place where the rules of the natural world work a little differently.

Did you know that a region in Antarctica called McMurdo Dry Valleys haven't experienced rainfall for over two million years?

Research allows for the development of strategies to combat climate change, taking into account the hidden landscapes ...

Alessandro Antonello is Associate Professor of Environmental History at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is the author of The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment ...

Credit: Allison Cusick Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at ...