Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea ... the Alfred Wegener Institute publish their results in the current issue of the scientific journal Current Biology.

Even in the Southern Hemisphere's mid-summer, temperatures typically don't stray far above or below freezing along the Antarctic Peninsula. This peninsula extends northeastward into the warmer ...

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

Recently, Russian scientists claimed that the universe’s largest oil and gas reserves were discovered in the British Antarctic Territory. This discovery has significantly impacted geopolitics, the ...

One day, he retrieved a copy of “The Heart of the Antarctic,” Shackleton’s account of his gallant but doomed attempt, in 1907-09, to reach the South Pole. (The journey was known as the ...

The target of the new research effort is Antarctic krill, which are just a couple of inches long and one of the most abundant and important animals on the planet. Marine wildlife - including ...

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 ...

The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend ... It has also slowed the deepest current in the global overturning circulation, a system of ocean currents that circulates water ...

The West Antarctic Rift System is home to over 130 ... Of the five major extinctions in the planet’s history (leaving out the current mass extinction for now), four of them were caused in ...

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 ...