For years, the BAS has been studying the bedrock beneath Antarctica's thick ice using advanced radar, sound waves, and gravity mapping techniques.

One of them is a madman — accused of violently beating, threatening and sexually harassed at least two of his teammates.

It’s the kind of event that when it happens, you leave whatever you’re doing,” said Patricia Esquete, the expedition’s chief scientist.

As the planet heats up and Antarctica’s ice sheet melts at a faster pace, scientists warn of a steady rise in sea levels.

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Microscopic red algae, responsible for a phenomenon also known as watermelon snow or blood snow, are proliferating due to global warming and in turn accelerating it ...

Satellite images taken at the beginning of March show the iceberg parked on a shallow underwater shelf off the coast of South Georgia Island, which is a British overseas territory in the South ...

Pictures show the crew looking chummy together ... The SANAE IV base is in one of the remotest parts of Antarctica, 10 days from Cape Town by boat. ZUMAPRESS.com South African authorities insist ...

General view of the U.S. McMurdo Station in Antarctica on November 11, 2016. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) Even Iran has shown interest in the southern pole region. In a 2023 interview on Iranian ...

The climate crisis will turn some areas of Antarctica into carbon absorption zones—so-called carbon sinks. The idea seems ...

A travel content creator shared his unique experience flying directly from Cape Town to Antarctica on a modified cargo plane ...

A gigantic iceberg cracked off Antarctica on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen daylight in decades. Researchers decided to search the seafloor under the freshly exposed ocean. What ...