Quick Take African penguins faced an eight-year die-off from 2004 to 2011, with about 62,000 adults dying mainly from ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). For the explorer Ernest Shackleton, it was the glory of reaching the South Pole that brought him to Antarctica. For polar polymath ...

Antarctica faces abrupt, irreversible climate changes as warming nears 1.5 °C, threatening ice, oceans, ecosystems, and ...

On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice free. Scientists were able to reach places never sampled before. Over the ...

Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time human societies became increasingly settled. A new study published in Nature ...

Step out of a helicopter onto a never-before-seen island in Antarctica’s distant south during this expert-led tour around endless icebergs, frozen cliffs and mercurial glaciers. In Antarctica, the ...

Edward Doddridge receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Over the past four summers, Antarctic sea ice extent has hit new lows. I’m part of a large group of scientists who set out to ...