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.

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.

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 ...

Four things you should know about Antarctica "The ozone hole has pulled the polar jet stream further south, increasing its strength," explained Prof Robinson. "These winds isolate Antarctica and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artist Claudia Myatt imagined the reactions of penguins and a seal as the polar ship approached the Lemaire Channel on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula Penguins, polar landscapes and old ...

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 ...