Isolation, frigid temperatures and old food are small prices to pay for the opportunity to do research in Antarctica.

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...

Antarctica’s pristine image is misleading, according to Professor Peder Roberts, who uncovers the political intrigue linked to the Antarctic Treaty ...

Scientists using a submersible robot discovered patterns under the Antarctic ice that have never been seen before by humans.

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

Antarctica was once a lush and thriving land, teeming with prehistoric life. It's hard to believe now, but tucked away, hidden underneath a layer of ice kilometers thick, that ancient landscape still ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

There were acres and acres of banana plantations and pretty houses, but this huge area is now a completely unusable and worthless black land mass.” Browning cycled on a new road carved across ...

Irish scientists in Antarctica are planning the continent's first ever St Patrick's Day parade. Gráinne Keogh, a marine biologist from Belgooly in Co Cork, works on the Rothera research station ...

The Antarctic ice sheet, Earth’s largest ice mass and nearly twice the size of ... platforms of ice that extend over the ocean from land-based glaciers and hold back the bulk of Antarctica ...