For the first time, important features of the Antarctic coastal zone have been mapped at high resolution around the continent ...

Scientists have directly linked surface meltwater to a sudden increase in the speed of an Antarctic glacier, after drilling ...

New research shows that larval Antarctic krill could be carried far from their birthplace by drifting sea ice, linking ...

The important role ships play in gathering scientific data in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean has been outlined at a ...

East Antarctica gained an astonishing 695 billion tons of ice between 2021 and 2023, temporarily slowing Antarctica’s ...

A rare satellite view reveals the persistent lava lake inside Mount Michael, an active volcano on remote Saunders Island near ...

Biologists have uncovered a unique ensemble of Arthrobacter in Antarctic soil that are unlike microbes found anywhere else on ...

Penguin colonies are so large that their masses of excrement can be seen from space, offering scientists a useful means of ...

The companies fishing for Antarctic krill have harvested so much so quickly that the season had to close in August 2026, three months before it was scheduled to end. That’s the second consecutive year ...

A tropical warming event helped drive record snowfall and a temporary 695-billion-ton ice gain in East Antarctica without ...

Winter 2023's Antarctic sea ice was at its lowest level since satellite measurements began. A new study shows how unlikely this would be without man-made factors. For decades, scientists have gathered ...

Ozone recovery is reducing UV radiation in Antarctica, but new research suggests the change could weaken tundra carbon uptake ...