Jo Oliver, a conservation carpenter based in Wedmore, Somerset, said climate change has caused more snow and rain to hit the buildings at Base A, Port Lockroy. He is doing conservation work in near ...

What does Antarctica sound like? 'Magic. A silence that is not silent.' Visiting this part of the world is unlike anything else - and doing so on a cruise ship offers the opportunity to immerse ...

On a map, Antarctica reads like the final frontier, a place where the rules of the natural world work a little differently. The idea that an entire continent covered in ice qualifies as a desert doesn ...

New research shows storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rainfall, revealing a major shift in one of Earth’s most important climate systems. Macquarie Island sits in the remote Southern ...

An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica's ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call "Greenlandification." The term refers to the unprecedented ...

With Cape Town being on the southernmost tip of Africa, it plays an important role in expeditions to the frozen continent.

A Boeing 737 MAX flew from Cape Town to Antarctica, landing on an ice runway at Troll Research Station during a rare polar ...

A rare aviation mission from Cape Town has offered a glimpse of what it takes to land a passenger jet on the frozen continent ...

If the location is not accessible or the shooting schedule is tight with minimal ground time, the movement of personnel and ...

It’s a huge mental challenge because you don’t have any stimulation,” Dorantes said after her trip to the South Pole.

For a long time, scientists knew of a “gravity hole” beneath Antarctica—an area with particularly weak gravitational force. Considering the various threats currently faced by the region, scientists ...