The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international ...

Penguin poop is stinky but useful. In Antarctica, the birds’ nutrient-rich guano allows mosses and other organisms to ...

Peter Fretwell, mapping specialist and co-author at BAS, said it had become clear that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is thicker ...

Some 19 projects dealing with wide range of topics, mostly focused on climate change’s impact on aquatic life, have been ...

Kolkata: Kolkata-based green entrepreneur and sustainability champion, Piyush Jaju, is set to take on an extraordinary ...

“If you look on nautical charts, it calls this island Bombay Island after this boat,” Lockton said of the remains of an old ...

After more than two months in Antarctic waters, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10) and its crew departed the ...

The updated observatory was built to ensure that the scientific instrumentation on land and supporting infrastructure in the ...

Antarctica — which is one and a half times the size of Canada — has been governed by a treaty of nations. But with rising ...

Tourists to Antarctica are fueling research on some of the tiniest, most influential organisms on Earth: phytoplankton. These ...

Sandwiched between the freezing cold of Earth’s coldest continent and the warmth of its southernmost active volcano, the ...

As they embarked on the Drake Passage, Xavier — who had explored the wonders Antarctica offers once before — recalled the ...