Amid growing geopolitical tensions and a rapidly changing global energy landscape, one of the most surprising revelations in ...

The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

Ice loss in Antarctica and its impact on the planet—sea level rise, changes to ocean currents and disturbance of wildlife and ...

The number of tourists heading to Antarctica has been skyrocketing. From fewer than 8,000 a year about three decades ago, ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

China's Xuelong (Snow Dragon) ice breaker currently docked in New Zealand Chinese scientists are expected to conclude the most complete and precise map of Antarctica during their current ...

Populations of whales that survived decades of hunting now face new dangers as they migrate from Antarctica to Australia. On Wednesday, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) launched an interactive map ...

It struck between Cape Horn and Antarctica at a depth of 10km (six miles) at around 10am local time (2pm UK time), the USGS confirmed. Five further tremors ranging from 4.9 to 5.7 in magnitude ...

Centered on Antarctica, the map shows the Earth’s oceans as an uninterrupted body of water. Australia, Africa, and Europe are whole; Asia and America are stretched along their coasts.

China has been active in Antarctica for over 40 years and has four year-round stations: Great Wall station in the Peninsula with capacity for 60 people, Zhongshan station in Larsemann Hills with ...