The Latest Breaking News from Antarctica

As global temperatures inch upwards year after year, the world’s glaciers retreat. These rivers of ice and the even larger ice sheets which cover Greenland and Antarctica are melting – and the melt is speeding up.

A team of scientists deployed an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to explore beneath Dotson ice shelf, on the western side of Antarctica.

An archive of more than 300,000 historical images contains an invaluable record of this area from 1968.

When it comes to inland surface water bodies, saline lakes are unique. They make up 44% of all lakes worldwide and are found on every continent including Antarctica. These lakes’ existence depends on a delicate balance between a river basin’s water input (precipitation and inflows) and output (evaporation and seepage).

Discovery of Polar explorer’s historic vessel in 2022 caused sensation

In March 2002, the Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsed catastrophically, breaking up an area about one-sixth the size of Tasmania.

Moss that grows in Mojave desert and Antarctica may help establish life on the red planet, researchers say

A humpback whale off the Victorian coast has been freed from a tangle of fishing lines, ropes and buoys that it may have towed all the way from Antarctica.

When childhood friends Colin O'Brady and Lucas Clarke reached the Race Across America finish line in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Saturday evening, they may not have fulfilled their "Sub Six" goal, but celebrations were in order all the same.