The National Science Foundation has fired workers at the office that manages polar research, raising fears about a reduced ...

A massive iceberg known as A23a is currently on a collision course with South Georgia Island, threatening to disrupt the ...

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that ...

If you've seen a world map or travelled to Australia then you'll know just how far away it is from other continents - but ...

It’s not uncommon for space missions to be tested here on planet Earth. With the plethora of missions that have been sent to ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

If it works for the Belgica antarctica midge… (Picture: Scientific Reports) Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny ...

CEO of Hitachi Energy, Andreas Schierenbeck on The Big Question ...

ANTARCTICA IS THE only continent unbloodied ... The carve-up of the continent reflects the world of the early 1900s: Britain, the naval hegemon at the time, and its former colonies grabbed almost ...

Although much of Antarctica has been chartered and collected in maps by different countries this latest edition to be finished at the end of this year has been described “as the most complete so ...

The plastics found in remote Antarctica were found by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) at concentrations that ranged between 73 and 3,099 particles per litre of snow. And they were around 0.005 ...