When you do the work you would have to be an absolute nutter to conclude anything other than that the quality of life for ...

In 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his 27-man crew set sail on a journey to Antarctica. Their mission? To become the first people to ever cross the entire continent, which is roughly 1.3 ...

Decades of enigma around an Antarctic pyramid finally resolved amid steaming speculation by raging conspiracy theorists.

Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

The Interannual Variability of Antarctic Fast‐Ice Thickness in McMurdo Sound and Connections to Climate. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans , 2024; 129 (12) DOI: 10.1029/2023JC020134 Cite ...

There is indirect evidence that, during the last interglacial period, about 125,000 years ago, parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated. An ice core drilled from the ice sheet near the ...

Antarctica is a place rife with opportunities for discovery, but strangely enough, the discovery of the continent itself is something of a contested topic.

The world's biggest iceberg is drifting toward a tiny south Atlantic island, potentially affecting the wildlife there, ...

Smaller calving events, not large icebergs, drive Antarctic ice sheet loss. Arecent study conducted by University of Florida geologists and geographers has shed new light on the effects of climate ...

The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica on a potential collision course with South Georgia, a crucial wildlife breeding ground in the South Atlantic. Satellite imagery suggested ...

Today, Condé Nast Traveler’s Matthew Buck is in Antarctica to see what life is like on the most remote continent on Earth. A stay in Antarctica is a rare opportunity filled with once-in-a ...

A new species of mud dragon has been discovered by a research team led by the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). "This discovery significantly expands the knowledge of the biodiversity of ...