"I am not aware of an iceberg that has been trapped in such a persistent manner in such a small area," said an ice specialist ...

Antarctica, the icy continent, is experiencing a surprising transformation as its fringes turn green with plant life in the ...

Scientists investigating the frozen Lake Enigma in Antarctica discovered an ecosystem teeming with strange microbial ...

I'm part of a group of scientists who have just combined satellite data with field measurements to produce the first map of green vegetation across the whole Antarctic continent. We detected 44.2 ...

Uncle Bob is on an expedition to the South Pole, and he sent me a photo of his frozen baked beans but I don’t know where to place it on the map. Chrissie: Well, Antarctica is way down in the ...

Shackleton planned to be the first person to cross Antarctica. He was headed for the area of Coats Land (in the Weddell Sea) when his ship got stuck in pack ice. In Shackleton's original plan ...

"It's exciting to see A23a on the move again after periods of being stuck," oceanographer Andrew Meijers said.

A team of scientists and engineers have landed in Antarctica to test a drone that will help experts forecast the impacts of climate change. The autonomous plane will map areas of the continent ...

Scientists have made the most precise map yet of the mountains, canyons and plains that make up the floor of Antarctica's encircling Southern Ocean. Covering 48 million sq km (18.5 million sq ...

forcing the redrafting of Antarctic maps. Iceberg B-15A is 115 kilometres long which originally broke off Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf in 2000. Scientists predicted an imminent collision of the ...