The Latest Breaking News from Antarctic

Massive reductions in Antarctic sea ice in recent years has been correlated with more stormy days in the Southern Ocean, and could have implications for vital ocean currents.

From the Flask glacier to King George Island, intrepid researchers expect good cheer, snow and DIY ice-cream

Exploring high-speed data at the world’s coldest frontier, RUVDS aims for Antarctic breakthrough after North Pole test.

As the Atlantic grew wider, the ancestral population of all of today's oaks may have been straddling the continents of the Northern Hemisphere. If so, the ancestor of the oaks we know today was a widespread population that was cleaved in half as North America inched westward.

Scientists investigating the frozen Lake Enigma in Antarctica discovered an ecosystem teeming with strange microbial communities.

Record ice loss in 2023 has added up to seven extra storm days per month in some areas

A BAY in Antarctica has been named after a professor who worked at the University of St Andrew's and passed away earlier this year...

A 2018 satellite photo shows the aptly named Deception Island, which was formed by a massive eruption 4,000 years ago and remains volcanically active today.

The professor, who also had an established career in medical research, took part in the treacherous 1955-58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition

This is a sprightly adaptation of Chris Haughton’s popular book, adding circus skills, projections and BSL

With sea storms and an unfixable ship, things did not go according to plan on SH Diana’s trip to the world’s southernmost continent, but Mark Stratton recounts how the cruise still ended up being a magnificent odyssey