Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge about what happens after the period of ...

Antarctica holds so much frozen water that if it vanished overnight, the shape of the planet’s coasts, climate and oceans ...

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and ...

About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The ...

Imagine peeling back miles of frozen white and revealing valleys, rivers, and mountains that haven't seen sunlight in tens of ...

From polar pack ice to Arctic archipelagos, these winning images reveal how life is exquisitely engineered to survive at the ...

Antarctica faces abrupt, irreversible climate changes as warming nears 1.5 °C, threatening ice, oceans, ecosystems, and ...

Travel to the end of the earth — as Ushuaia, Argentina, is called. Then travel beyond it, to the islands, coves and research stations of Antarctica, a remote and mysterious land experienced by only a ...

A shiny new red post box has been given as a gift from King Charles III to staff at a remote Antarctic research station. The ...

"If you're doing fieldwork for many months, the feeling of receiving a letter—an actual tangible—letter is such a lift," said ...

On Antarctic ice, movement itself becomes a survival test, especially for an animal that spends months walking far inland to ...

On Sunday, Catherine Drysdale became the first female winner in the race's 20-year history, and a Canadian runner made the ...