During Antarctica’s warm season, the sleek Norwegian passenger ship known as the MS Fridtjof Nansen departs regularly from Argentina for its journey south across the turbulent Drake Passage ...

Researchers aboard the RSV Nuyina are on a two-month mission to better understand a massive Antarctic glacier. Australian Antarctic Division Armed with lab equipment and two months of food and ...

NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR) — Penguins and ice are two things you can find in abundance as soon as you set foot on the continent of Antarctica. “It’s one of the most remote spots on the planet ...

For years, Antarctica’s ice loss contributed significantly to sea level rise. Between 2002 and 2010, the continent’s ice sheet lost an average of 73.79 gigatonnes per year, a rate that almost ...

The Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth, has seen temperatures rise five times faster than the global average in recent decades. Extreme heat events, such as the ...

The exploration of Antarctica was an example of colonialism despite only penguins living there, Cambridge University has claimed. Its Polar Museum looks after 5,000 objects, including artefacts ...