A parliamentary report has called on for a second icebreaking vessel and more reliable funding for Antarctic research.

For nearly a month the French territory of Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean has been engulfed in flames. Located ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

“Atmospheric rivers” are bringing rain to the frozen slopes of the West Antarctic ice sheet, hitting the ice shelves that ...

A British ship flying the Falkland Islands flag has sparked diplomatic tensions with Argentina.

Antarctica is a place rife with opportunities for discovery, but strangely enough, the discovery of the continent itself is something of a contested topic.

Discovered by the West not much more than 200 years ago, Antarctica’s history is unique when compared to the six other ...

To complete the quest, head over to the eastern side of the island near the Nature Preserve waypoint. Approach Keroppi who is waiting just outside the big building that looks like a museum.

The massive A23a iceberg, covering around 3,500 square kilometers (1,350 square miles), broke off from the Antarctic shelf in 1986 and remains the world's largest and oldest iceberg. After ...

The iceberg had been stuck in a rotating water column near the South Orkney Islands since last April, said Andrew Meijers from the British Antarctic Survey. "It has now come loose from this ...