Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it ...

The opportunity to learn about the animals, the history of the continent and its 1959-era Antarctic Treaty, and the effects of climate change on the vast polar desert most impressed Katie.

Reams of scientific papers and accounts of the Antarctic winter had prepared ... dry climate of the polar desert. There’s a third less oxygen than at sea level, impairing brain function.

While the desolation of Antarctica's polar desert leads to it often being overlooked, the world's southernmost continent "has been one of the most rapidly warming parts of the planet" over the ...

Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life except ... buried in the continent's South Shetland Islands. The great polar explorers Shackleton, Amundsen, and Scott all found ...

For the first time, scientists have uncovered amber in Antarctica, a groundbreaking discovery that sheds light on the ...

Have you always dreamed of visiting the icy cold Antarctica? While the trip to Antarctica is not for the faint-hearted, it is ...

The Antarctic Infrastructure Modernization Program was commissioned by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC-UKRI) to enable a world-leading capability to ensure that Britain remains at ...

While disappearing sea ice poses a threat to penguins, Adélie penguins in east Antarctica were recently hit by the opposite problem – there ... rain at a critical period – a very rare occurrence in ...

Unlike the Arctic, where sudden stratospheric warming events are almost annual, the Southern Hemisphere's polar vortex is typically more stable. The Antarctic troposphere also saw unusual weather ...

[Photo/Xinhua] China's 41st Antarctic expedition team, aboard the country's two polar icebreakers Xue Long (Snow Dragon) and Xue Long 2, departed Guangzhou of Guangdong province and headed for the ...