Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might ...

De Gerlache headed the first expedition to overwinter within the Antarctic Circle, after his ship Belgica was icebound in the Bellingshausen Sea. It collected the first annual cycle of Antarctic ...

Humans have been recording the weather for thousands of years. Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 ...

Meanwhile, flying down on a military aircraft and bringing the country's minister of defense demonstrates the very real ... The Antarctic is not the geopolitical hotspot that the Arctic Circle ...

The Danish-controlled island is coveted by some external actors who see the vast territory as a vector for precious minerals ...

This historic expedition laid the foundation for Dakshin Gangotri, cementing India’s place in global Antarctic research ... aboard the ship ‘Polar Circle’. 43 years ago, on January 9 ...

Forced to choose between a dangerous crossing or becoming stranded after Jan. 20, many migrants are risking their lives to cross the border before Trump’s inauguration. In the wake of Chile’s ...

When it comes to killing time, there are few activities better than building a Lego set. We all have fond memories of sitting ...

(PNRA/IPEV) When drilling finally got underway, an isotopic analysis system was able to read out glacial and interglacial cycles almost in real time, as each bit of the ice core was extracted from the ...

Smaller calving events, not large icebergs, drive Antarctic ice sheet loss. Arecent study conducted by University of Florida geologists and geographers has shed new light on the effects of climate ...

Roughly 3,500 square kilometres (1,350 square miles) across, the world's biggest and oldest iceberg, known as A23a, calved from the Antarctic shelf in 1986. It remained stuck for over 30 years ...