Ukrainian polar explorers have chosen a name for this year's first Weddell seal pup, which was born on Winter Island near the Vernadskyi Research Base. It was named in honour of a Ukrainian-made ...

Panaji: Marking a major step in the country’s long-term polar roadmap, the Centre has given the financial green light for ...

The earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck in the Drake passage between Chile and Antarctica - shaking was ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Nancy Bertler and her team took a freezer to the coldest place on Earth, endured weeks of primitive living and risked spending the winter in Antarctic darkness, to go get ice ...

At the end of September, cold air at high altitudes above Antarctica had soared to more than 60 degrees above normal. It is a phenomenon known as "sudden stratospheric warming," and even though they ...

There has been a research station at the Brunt Ice Shelf in the Antarctic since 1957, when the Royal Society led an expedition there. Halley VI, opened last February, is the first one to have the ...

The Antarctic is a harsh and unforgiving climate for many, though there is no shortage of important biological activity ...

Researchers aboard the RSV Nuyina are on a two-month mission to better understand a massive Antarctic glacier. Australian Antarctic Division Armed with lab equipment and two months of food and clothes ...

Australia’s $529m icebreaker vessel has made unexpected contact with the sea floor near Heard Island in the Antarctic.

A Russian state-owned corporation has denied it is exploring for hydrocarbons in the Antarctic, despite protests by environmental groups in South Africa that raised the spectre of Moscow secretly ...

Antarctica is at risk of abrupt and potentially irreversible changes to the continent’s ice, ocean and ecosystems that could have profound implications for Australia and beyond, unless urgent action ...