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, ...

Most of the frozen water has vanished because glaciers have been flowing faster into the ocean, rather than because of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Measurements from an Antarctic expedition have highlighted a stubborn problem in climate modeling: some leading simulations ...

Microscopy of Blood Falls deposits revealed amorphous iron-rich nanospheres formed as dissolved iron in ancient subglacial ...

Miles away from the closest ocean, marine microbes thrive in the red ice and mud around Blood Falls, offering clues to microbial adaptation and past climate events.