After decades of concern and cautious optimism, scientists have now confirmed with high statistical confidence that the ...

Antarctic sea ice has been behaving erratically. Sea ice cover has been much more variable than it used to be, with anomalies ...

Sandwiched between the freezing cold of Earth’s coldest continent and the warmth of its southernmost active volcano, the ...

The biggest iceberg in the world, named A23a, appears to have run aground after drifting around the Southern Ocean near ...

Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend ...

Will McGough thought he’d scatter his father’s ashes in Antarctica for a special tribute. But once there, he learned that ...

Analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA has illuminated 6,000 years of the lives of Adélie penguin colonies on Antarctica's Ross ...

New ancient DNA research on Adélie penguin poo in Antarctica shows how several species respond to environmental change over ...

“If you look on nautical charts, it calls this island Bombay Island after this boat,” Lockton said of the remains of an old ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Svalbard opened in 2008 and now contains 1.25 million seed samples ...