As the planet warms, Antarctica's ice sheet is melting and contributing to sea-level rise around the globe. Antarctica holds ...

A new species of Antarctic fish has been discovered that highlights how fragile the underwater ecosystem really is.

The bountiful creatures sequester carbon and are a vital food source for marine predators, but their future is uncertain ...

Bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature ...

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the most prominent interannual climate variability signal, has been widely studied ...

Irish scientists in Antarctica are planning the continent's first ever St Patrick's Day parade. Gráinne Keogh, a marine ...

China wants to build a new Antarctic base, not far (in Antarctic terms) from New Zealand’s Scott Base. It would be China’s ...

In the end, in the dark, it all came down to three things — experience, good judgment in the face of uncertainty, and penguin ...

The Trump administration is sabotaging the country’s gold-standard climate science in Antarctica and around the world.

A new MIT-led study confirms that the Antarctic ozone layer is healing, as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ...

"In general, it's become clear the Antarctic Ice Sheet is thicker than we originally realised and has a larger volume of ice ...

A23a weighs nearly a trillion metric tons, making it the world’s largest active iceberg. It calved from Antarctica in 1986, ...