Nearer the pole, a series of deep subpolar lows is usually centred between latitudes 50-60 degrees South. A high pressure area over Antarctica-- associated with extremely cold and dense air is ringed ...

"But Antarctica is not an apolitical human paradise with untouched nature—a sort of continent for scientific inquiry alone.

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...

When the Chicago-size iceberg drifted away, scientists seized the opportunity to study the life and geologic formations ...

Stanford researchers discovered that increased meltwater and rainfall account for 60% of the decades-long gap between ...

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

A massive iceberg broke off from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica in January, giving researchers a rare opportunity to ...

Argentina's Antarctica Logistics Pole to be built in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, at the current naval base will be totally financed, managed and autonomous, no strings with any of the leading ...

A former Royal Marine who crossed the Antarctic has taken on a new challenge ... including skiing solo and unsupported 730 miles to the South Pole in 2018-19 in just 38 days, and running his ...

When President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared Türkiye's ambition to play a role in shaping the future of Antarctica in 2019, the country was only taking its almost first steps on the frozen continent.

I’m not the first. In 1911, Roald Amundsen, the first explorer to reach the South Pole, wrote that the Queen Maud Range in Antarctica “is a land that looks like a fairy tale … the coldest, windiest ...