A pocket watch which has been described as having an "adventurous past" by an auction house is set to go under the hammer. An ...

Unchecked tourism growth in Antarctica risks undermining the very environment that draws visitors to the region. What can be ...

The ocean around Antarctica is changing in unexpected ways. Since 2015, sea ice surrounding the frozen continent has been ...

Researchers from the University of Murica (Murica, Spain), the Carlos III Health Institute (Madrid, Spain), and the University of Siena (Siena, Italy) evaluated the concentration of polychlorinated ...

About two-thirds of Antarctic tourists land on the continent. The visitors can threaten fragile ecosystems by: Even when ...

The latest study shows that severe sea-ice lows, such as those seen in recent years, cause three interrelated crises.

The dramatic loss of sea ice around Antarctica has occurred with the re-emergence of the Maud Rise polynya in the Weddell Sea ...

A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting saltier, and sea ice is melting at record speed, enough to match the size ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace.

Commuting to Concordia research station in Antarctica takes days—it’s more remote than the International Space Station.

Antarctica has lost sea ice equal to the size of Greenland—the largest environmental change observed on Earth in recent ...

Scientists were shocked to encounter a live Gonatus antarcticus, a squid species only known from dead specimens, in the ...