Robert Falcon Scott led an expedition aboard the ship ‘Terra Nova’ and Ernest Shackleton led one from the ship ‘Quest’—but ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...

The loss of ice on Antarctica could expose vast swaths of land allowing access to valuable mineral resources on the frozen ...

Scientists discovered that atmospheric rivers reaching Antarctica arrive at an angle, improving snowfall tracking and sea ...

A vertebra discovered by British scientists in 1985 has been identified as the first dinosaur fossil found in Antarctica, ...

"Our results show that climate change made the retreat of the Pine Island Glacier substantially worse,” the lead author said.

The Southern Ocean has long stood out as an oddity in the global climate system. While most of the planet's surface oceans ...

Antarctica's 'Blood Falls' is a striking natural wonder, not of blood, but of iron-rich water from a 1.5-million-year-old sub ...

Scientists have uncovered why Antarctica became engulfed by ice millions of years before the Arctic. The international ...

Midwinter celebrations at the British research stations include a feast, exchange of presents, watching the 1982 horror film The Thing (where an alien monster terrorises an Antarctic base) and ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...