Weighing a little under a trillion tonnes, this monster block of freshwater was being whisked along by the world's most powerful ocean "jet stream" -- the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

Maps created by combining different models of glaciers and ice sheets reveal the way water is flowing deep beneath Antarctica ...

Research, published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, suggests that mass unloading due to melting of Antarctic ice sheets (isostatic rebound) is triggering eruptions of greater frequency ...

Antarctic cruises are ideal for intrepid explorers wanting to discover the white wilderness of the South Pole. A land of spectacular scenery and unique wildlife, many cruises of the southern ...

Vernadsky's outside communications were temporarily cut off in 2022 after a Russian missile struck the National Antarctic Scientific Center in Kyiv. And more than two dozen polar researchers have ...

This historic expedition laid the foundation for Dakshin Gangotri, cementing India’s place in global Antarctic research In December 1981, India took its first steps into the icy expanse of ...

Ben Galton-Fenzi is employed by the Australian Antarctic DIvision ... It has also slowed the deepest current in the global overturning circulation, a system of ocean currents that circulates ...

Whereas the Arctic Region is the natural home for Polar Bears, the Antarctic is the natural habitat ... These short film clips contribute to the current national curriculum requirements in KS1 ...

Cat Burford, pictured at the South Pole, said her 700-mile challenge across Antarctica had been "really brutal" A dentist from Truro is celebrating reaching the South Pole unaided to realise a ...

Dr Sarah Thompson, a glaciologist with the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership, said Denman Glacier was of interest because it contained so much water. “The Denman Glacier is one of the ...

Challenges for the Antarctic Treaty China's involvement in Antarctica is by no means new. The country set up its first research station in 1985, just two years after joining the Antarctic Treaty ...