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A new discovery of methane leaks in Antarctica could be a game-changer and potential near-term threat that’s difficult to ...

Millie Mclay, 27, took to the social media platform of TikTok to share the realities of cruising through the Earth's ...

Antarctica, Earth's southernmost continent, is a place of extremes. Over 99% of Antarctica is covered in ice, which is up to 4.9 km thick inland, and extends over the sea in the form of ice shelves ...

Antarctica is like no place on Earth. The "White Continent" has lured explorers and scientists to its stunning, ice-encrusted landscape for two centuries. Countries have tried to carve up Antarctica ...

Meanwhile, Antarctica has received relatively little attention. We set out to change that. The most suitable sediments are exposed near the coast of the icy continent, where penguins like to breed.

A23a, as the iceberg is officially known, was born in 1986 when it broke off from another iceberg, A23, that had torn away from Antarctica earlier that year. The separation of a smaller ice chunk ...

Antarctica's remote and mysterious current has a profound influence on the climate, food systems and Antarctic ecosystems. Can we stop it weakening by 2050? Flowing clockwise around Antarctica ...

China currently has five stations in Antarctica, including one that opened last year. It has now lodged plans for a new summer research station in West Antarctica — with China's Ambassador to ...

Scared was too strong a word to describe how I was feeling en route to Antarctica. I was nervous—uneasy, really. Our ship, the National Geographic Explorer, had just departed Ushuaia, the Argentinian ...