The Latest Breaking News from Antarctic

A gunshot interrupts the peaceful sleep of a leopard seal, lying nonchalantly on a small piece of ice floating in the shadow of an Antarctic glacier.

A 100km-long curtain moored to the Amundsen Sea bed in Antarctica could prevent catastrophic flooding elsewhere, say scientists

The bird, usually found on subantarctic islands, believed to be undergoing annual moulting on land at Coorong beach

With confirmed or suspected cases in two Antarctic penguin species, researchers fear highly contagious virus could rip through colonies

Australia is not prepared for how ice changes could pummel its economy, a leading scientist says

Anna McMorrin says Labour ‘absolutely determined’ on net zero after visiting Antarctica and finding report by her father, a polar researcher

Exclusive: Prof Matt King says accelerated melting could transform country and affect viability of some agricultural industries

Donna Urquhart takes 26 days to break the endurance record in some of the harshest conditions on Earth

When I was working on my book Antarctica in Fiction, friends and colleagues would joke about what an easy task I had taken on. How many writers would choose to set a novel in a continent with no permanent human population? Surely a dozen or so books would cover it.

British Army medical officer, Captain Harpreet Chandi, becomes fastest woman to ski solo across Antarctica, inspiring others to step outside their comfort ...

Preet Chandi is a day quicker for solo and unsupported Antarctic crossing