A video has surfaced showing two blue whales—a mother and calf—swimming in the Southern Ocean by Antarctica. The footage was captured by a drone operated by animal conservation group Sea Shepherd, according to the Australia Broadcasting Corporation. “Filming this endangered blue whale and her calf with a drone was unbelievable,” the drone’s pilot, Gavin Garrison, […]

A team of scientists, led by Durham University, believe that they have found the largest canyon in the world. They think that it's buried under sheets of ice in the region of Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica.

Antarctica was once a balmier place, lush with plants and lakes.

Data recovered from seismometers in Antarctica are giving scientists the first detailed look at the Earth beneath the region.

As surface temperatures rise, ice sheets are melting at record rates and sea levels are rising—but perhaps not as quickly as predicted.

Extreme storms and rising sea levels will threaten the existence of coastal cities worldwide, unless preventative action is undertaken.

Recent investigations have shown the continent and surrounding ocean are rich in species, which are also very highly diversified into a variety of distinct ecological regions that differ greatly from each other.

A Swedish man recently sailed across Antarctica, capturing his 16 day odyssey in hours of HD drone footage so viscerally stunning, you can expect copycats to continuously make similar treks to the swathes of ice caps down under for the next century.

Antarctica is a cold, largely barren place, but researchers report they have come upon a previously unknown place on the frozen continent that may be teeming with life.

Ask people what they know about Antarctica and they usually mention cold, snow and ice. In fact, there’s so much ice on Antarctica that if it all melted into the ocean, average sea level around the entire world would rise about 200 feet, roughly the height of a 20-story building. Could this happen? There’s evidence […]

Weddell seals from Erebus Bay in Antarctica have been studied for decades. One of the scientists, William Link with the U.S. Geological Survey captured a heartwarming moment involving a mother and her pup back in October.

Cornell University researchers found traces of bubonic plague uptown, organisms only previously seen in Antarctica on the south side and more.

The water below the Antarctic ice sheet is as cold and dark as ever, but it turns out it’s not as desolate as scientists thought. There’s a whole ecosystem down there.

A matter of inches might help solve a riddle scientists have been working on for years: why rising ocean levels don't match ice melt.

A 1.24-mile wide ring in eastern Antarctica was first spotted at the end of 2014 and may be a meteoric crater caused by a crash ten years earlier.

– Frank Hurley, photographer on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endeavor Those words certainly ring true for me.  As an older woman traveling alone to such a distant place, I knew that I would have to start planning well in advance and explore all my options before booking passage. While I didn’t realize it at the […]

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

A study of almost 20 years' worth of satellite images shows Antarctic sea levels are on the rise as ice shelves continue to melt.

A U.S. team found nearly 4,000 species in a subglacial lake that hasn't seen sunlight in millennia, showing life can thrive even under the ice.

Some scientists say the closing of the hole in the ozone layer could accelerate global warming. Does the hole also potentially release pollutants?