A member of a small South African research team at a remote Antarctic base has accused a colleague of assault and pleaded for intervention, officials have said. A “response plan to engage the ...

A giant phantom jelly is documented in the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica, at an area where the shelf break and slope are cut by several underwater gullies. This jellyfish can grow to a massive ...

The base sits on stilts near a cliff edge — a row of buildings that the team will remain in until December, the heart of the Antarctic summer, when a ship is set to depart from South Africa to ...

1:00 Footage captures moment 40m tower of ice splits from Antarctic glacier Footage captures moment 40m tower of ice splits from Antarctic glacier Antarctic ice is melting faster than expected ...

Hanne E F Nielsen receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Dutch Research Council. Rebecca Kaiser does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company ...

A researcher at a South African base in Antarctica has been accused of physical assault and sexual harassment. South Africa said it had no immediate plans to remove the accused or any colleagues ...

Living and working in a remote part of Antarctica is dangerous. The hostile conditions are something researchers stationed there can prepare for, but fear of being attacked by one of their own?

Earlier this year, a gigantic iceberg fell from the Antarctic ice sheet. When the approximately 19-mile long chunk of ice (roughly the size of Chicago) broke off on Jan. 13, it revealed an area of ...

The Antarctic researcher accused of threatening to kill colleagues trapped in a remote research station has apologised. Scientists at the Sanae IV base in Vesleskarvet, Queen Maude Land sent an ...