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

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Archaeologists amassed over 100 sediment samples in Antarctica to trace the history of Adélie penguins 6,000 years into the past, providing a vivid snapshot to help climate change efforts. Adélie ...

A pair of researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada, working with a colleague from the Scripps Institution of ...

A research base in Antarctica. In 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first to reach the South Pole. It was one of the most famous expeditions in history. No single country owns ...

In the first study to consider the long-term evolution of the rivers that flow beneath glaciers, researchers have new ...

Antarctica's southern regions are essential ... To take a different path would contradict its entire history." Thanks to Starlink – the satellite internet service owned by Trump's right-hand ...

Field research in Antarctica is an extended exercise in endurance. Grant approval alone can take more than a year, long enough to grow a beard like one of Ernest Shackleton’s shipwreck survivors.

Scientists extracted deep ice cores from Antarctica as part of the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project, aiming to uncover Earth ...

Antarctica is Earth's only uninhabited continent, home to the South Pole, and subject to a delicate balance of cooperation between key players. So what is at stake in the world's southernmost region?