A new study finds Antarctica gained mass for the first time in decades, reversing previous loss trends and briefly offsetting ...

Mass changes across the Antarctic ice sheet have been detected using satellite gravimetry, revealing significant ...

The New Zealand government will invest 49 million NZ dollars over the next seven years to advance Antarctic research, with a focus on climate change impacts that could directly affect New Zealand, a ...

The sun never rises and temperatures drop to -50, but many of Scott Base’s winter crew of 12 people keep coming back.

On Oct. 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy unleashed a 14-foot (4 meters) wall of seawater into New York City ... During cold ...

"Secrets of the Penguins" cinematographer Bertie Gregory describes how the birds would practically "break the fourth wall" ...

Soot from forest fires in the Amazon might play a role in the melting of faraway ice in Antarctica. For decades, scientists have known that black carbon from burning fossil fuels or forests ...

The creation of communities among Emperor penguins in Antarctica, for instance, which huddle in rotating circular flocks to allow the birds on the perimeter to get warm, too; the teamwork between a ...

Microbes living beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet may survive on methane generated by geothermal heat rising from deep below Earth’s surface. The discovery could have implications for assessing ...

A visually stunning series on National Geographic highlights the cooperative strategies penguins use to survive harsh ...

Differences in seawater colour could reveal how tiny Antarctic creatures are faring in a warming world. More than twice the size of greater London, the expanse of ice is unpredictable and dangerous.

From aboard a research vessel near Antarctica, scientists watched the camera feed from a submersible thousands of feet below. A ghostly, transparent deep-sea squid suddenly appeared on the screen.