New study explains how winter sea ice and melting ice shelves control the formation of deep ocean water in Antarctica.

The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...

An explorer and a glaciologist are kite-skiing across Antarctica with a ground-penetrating radar to gather data that will ...

Aarti Gupta becomes the first woman from Bihar and IMD to join the 45th Indian Scientific Antarctica Winter Expedition, braving extreme cold for groundbreaking research ...

Back in the 1930s, an ill-advised plan was hatched to keep a living penguin at the Little America hotel in southwest Wyoming.

At 10 a.m. on Saturday, the crew pulled up the gangplank and took in the mooring lines, and soon the Araon was steaming out ...

Over the holidays, a team of researchers, including one from Minnesota, is hard at work in Antarctica. The scientists are ...

Colin O'Brady and Tom Hunt are both struggling on, with O'Brady about to hit the Antarctic landmass and Hunt just 30km from ...

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

A weather anomaly thousands of kilometres from Australia is having an outsized impact on summer – and the previous times it ...

Antarctica is known for being a rather inhospitable place, what with its extreme cold, violent winds, and low levels of water – it is technically a desert. Much of continent also sits at high altitude ...

From the icy frontiers of Antarctica to the beaches of Zanzibar, here are the 20 best places to travel in the coming year.