Research involving the University of Liverpool has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica. In ...

By Daria Hatton MacDonald , University of Tasmania And Elizabeth Leane, University of Tasmania - The number of tourists ...

Any cap on tourist numbers in Antarctica, and rules for trading, must be based on evidence about what the environment can ...

Intended to revolutionize polar travel, the Snow Cruiser became one of history’s most spectacular expedition failures.

Discover the story of the Antarctic Snow Cruiser, a massive machine built to explore the frozen continent—but doomed by poor ...

Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By ...

Climate scientists in the United States are to be cut off from satellite data measuring the amount of sea ice — a sensitive ...

A fresh set of numbers is changing what scientists thought happens when a city‑sized slab of ice dissolves into the sea. The ...

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 ...