Summer mixed-layer depths are similar ... is likely to drive a downward trend in the magnitude of phytoplankton blooms in this region of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Often referred to as the last great frontier, Antarctica is the ultimate destination for an unforgettable adventure. Aside ...

This summer, parts of the continent experienced ... “Seeds, spores and plant fragments can readily find their way to the ...

While colder temperatures have been recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica (minus 128.6 degrees on July 21, 1983) and Klink ...

Four days later on 30 January 1820, William Smith and Edward Bransfield sighted the South Shetland Islands near the Antarctic Peninsula before ... winter and summer, and these take place at ...

This story appears in the November 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The western side of the Antarctic Peninsula has been experiencing some of the fastest warming winters on the planet ...

BBC science reporter, Victoria Gill visits the wilderness that is the Antarctica Peninsula to discover colonies ... forms every winter and thaws every summer acts a thermostat for planet Earth.

The vast majority of tourism voyages operate in the Antarctic Peninsula region during the five-month austral summer season from November to March, departing from Ushuaia, Argentina, or ...

On land, research teams will be conducting a survey of terrestrial biodiversity along the Antarctic Peninsula ... At Bird Island, the summer science fieldwork is already underway with research ...

Within almost four decades, the Antarctic Peninsula has seen the amount of greenery increase by over 1,000 per cent - with mosses being the type of greenery found growing on the land. This is a ...

It is summer in South Georgia and resident penguins ... the Weddell Sea from the site of the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. In 2022, the Larsen C ice shelf — which was roughly ...