It holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by three to four metres and, until recently, has been viewed as relatively ...

Ranulph Fiennes, a legendary British explorer, has hit headlines for disappearing from public life. Find out all about him, ...

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Antarctic krill have been observed gathering and feeding at deep-sea hydrothermal vents more than 900m beneath the Southern ...

This is the first new penguin species described in more than 100 years – the Northern rockhopper penguin ( Eudyptes moseleyi) ...

Researchers have identified remnants of the supercontinent Gondwana beneath Antarctica's ice, suggesting it played a crucial ...

Antarctica may be hiding many of the remnants of Himalaya-scale mountains that once allowed life to flourish underneath its ...

COPENHAGEN, Sept 25 - At a windswept gravel airstrip in eastern Greenland, a small Danish military detachment has quietly ...

Antarctic sea ice has recorded its third-smallest winter peak extent since satellite records began 48 years ago, new data ...

Millions of years ago, continental collisions created enormous mountains in what's now Antarctica. As they eroded, Earth's ...

In the remote depths of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, scientists searching for historical shipwrecks instead stumbled upon a mystery of the living world. It was 2019, and the research team aboard the SA ...

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey utilized Sentinel-2 satellite images to unveil eight new emperor penguin breeding colonies, increasing the known total to 61. This crucial discovery ...