As a civilian employee, the author’s father had a job that rooted them firmly in their Arizona town, so she was more than ...

Antarctic construction season comes to a close, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) marks a crucial milestone in the modernisation of ...

The South Pole Telescope has mapped our skies in more detail than ever before, strengthening our understanding of dark energy ...

Sudden onset blindness spurred Mark Pollock to become an adventure athlete, and when a fall from a second-story window ...

The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

New research explores the wide-ranging consequences of record low summer sea ice in Antarctica. From more ocean warming to ...

It was frozen in time. Antarctica wasn’t always a desolate icescape. International researchers announced the discovery of an over 30-million-year-old lost world beneath the Antarctic ice that ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015 ...

As Midwinter Day approaches in Antarctica – the longest and darkest day of the year – those spending the winter on the frozen continent will follow a tradition dating back more than a century to the ...

Researchers claim to have world-first footage of damage to sensitive and biodiverse Antarctic sea floor ecosystems caused by anchors and chains. The team behind the discovery has called for ...

Scientists previously estimated that the total emperor penguin population declined about 10% across all of Antarctica over the past decade and a half. The latest survey included a region covering ...