Two humpback whales were found dead and another seriously injured this year in huge nets used to collect krill for fishmeal ...

A vital glacier in western Antarctica appears to be smoking in a rare view captured by a NASA satellite earlier this month.

Antarctica has a strange secret: it’s one of the best places on Earth to find meteorites! This icy continent may seem like an ...

As Antarctica warms due to climate change, an unexpected phenomenon is occurring: the “greening” of the continent.

The International Antarctic Centre in the Harewood suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, opened in 1992. It features several ...

ANTARCTICA IS THE only continent unbloodied by war. For over six decades peace on the frozen land mass has been kept by the Antarctic Treaty, an agreement signed in 1959 at the height of the cold war ...

Antarctica is the fifth largest continent in the world, virtually uninhabited because of how cold it is and how much of the ...

A satellite hundreds of miles above Earth captured rare images of an atmospheric phenomenon that makes Antarctica glaciers ...

It was a bright, sunny afternoon during the recent summer season in Antarctica when the Seabourn Pursuit cruise ship rammed into a sheet of sea ice in Hanusse Bay. The ship plowed forward ...

Artificial intelligence can help accurately map and track penguin colonies in Antarctica by analysing tourist photos. “Right now, everyone has a camera in their pocket, and so the sheer volume of data ...

The idea is to get countries and civil society to sign onto a declaration that recognizes Antarctica and its surrounding Southern Ocean as its own autonomous legal entity, similar to a sovereign ...

Biologist Natasja van Gestel will oversee and coordinate scientific work on behalf of the National Science Foundation.