Antarctic

A Canberra-based defence think tank is warning the federal government to take a more proactive approach to engaging the Chinese communist regime in Antarctic affairs as future interests over the ...

Australian and New Zealand passengers will be evacuated from a stricken Antarctic cruise ship on April 9, after ...

SANTIAGO—The Chilean Air Force said on Wednesday it had located debris believed to be from a military cargo ...

An American man has become the first person to cross the Antarctic solo and unaided, dragging a  375-pound sled, ...

NASA’s Icebridge mission has captured an image of a significant rift in Antartica’s Larsen C ice shelf.

The Antarctic ozone hole may be starting to heal, finds a new study.

Of the 333 minke whales they killed in the Antarctic, 230 were females—of which 209 were pregnant—and 103 ...

Antarctica’s glaciers have been making headlines during the past year, and not in a good way.

Antarctica is a cold, largely barren place, but researchers report they have come upon a previously unknown place ...

The water below the Antarctic ice sheet is as cold and dark as ever, but it turns out ...

A matter of inches might help solve a riddle scientists have been working on for years: why rising ...

A 1.24-mile wide ring in eastern Antarctica was first spotted at the end of 2014 and may be ...

Antarctic sea ice isn't only expanding, it's thicker than previously thought, and scientists aren't sure exactly why.

For several years now climatologists have puzzled over an apparent conundrum: why is Antarctic sea ice continuing to ...

A study of almost 20 years' worth of satellite images shows Antarctic sea levels are on the rise ...

A U.S. team found nearly 4,000 species in a subglacial lake that hasn't seen sunlight in millennia, showing ...

An armed Japanese ship has entered the scene of tension between activists and whalers in the Antarctic Sea, ...

Three anti-whaling activists on Wednesday said they were injured in clashes with Japanese whaling boats, activist group Sea ...

Using penguin poo (guano), scientists have produced the first satellite-based survey that captures the whole breeding distribution of ...

Greenpeace activists in Japan announced Monday this week the departure of the Japanese whaling factory ship which was ...