On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice ...

Antarctic sea ice is more than just a platform for penguins. The sea ice's high reflectivity influences the whole Earth's ...

A sudden salinity spike in the Southern Ocean is accelerating Antarctic ice loss and triggering a dangerous climate feedback ...

Antarctic sea ice extent has fallen dramatically in recent years – the effects include accelerated ocean warming, faster loss ...

Some of the water around Antarctica has been getting saltier. And that has affected the amount of sea ice at the bottom of ...

The Russian official — until recently in charge of the firm that has stitched together vast maps of South Pole hydrocarbons — is helping negotiate Putin’s ‘scientific’ interests at the prestigious ...

The 47th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) involves 29 consultative states — including the US, China, Russia and South Africa — which gather annually to deliberate the future of the frozen, ...

AMC. The season finale of The Walking Dead: Dead City was, in some ways, a fitting conclusion to the second season. It was ...

Ponting was part of the scientific staff on the 1910-1912 Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole. British explorer and expedition leader Robert Falcon Scott reached the Pole on January 17, 1912.

A probe developed by the European Space Agency has taken the first images of the Sun’s south pole. How big of an achievement is this, and what can we learn from it? Joining Seán to discuss this ...

First view of the Sun’s pole. On March 23, 2025, Solar Orbiter reached an angle of 17° below the Sun’s equator. From that position, it could look directly at the Sun’s south pole. Over the next ...

The North Pole is surrounded by land and has plenty of emergency landing spots, while Antarctica is a frozen, ... and there’s just not much demand for flights over the South Pole.