Bone-chilling winters, inhabited towns, and lives built around survival — a closer look at a place where minus degrees are ...

Ask people to name the coldest country in the world, and the answer almost instinctively given is Antarctica. The confusion ...

Researchers warn Antarctica is undergoing abrupt changes that could trigger global consequences. Melting ice, collapsing ice shelves, and disrupted ocean circulation threaten sea levels, ecosystems, ...

In October this year, India announced its intention to build Maitri II, the country’s newest research station in Antarctica ...

New research has revealed that East Antarctica’s vast and icy interior is heating up faster than its coasts, fueled by warm air carried from the Southern Indian Ocean. Using 30 years of weather ...

It's the middle of the winter in Antarctica, when the ocean around the continent freezes. But this year there's less sea ice than ever recorded. Antarctica has a lot less sea ice than usual. That's ...

The completed astronomical observatory at Ridge A. From left, the HEAT telescope, the yellow PLATO-R instrument module, with cameras and antennas on the rooftop, and solar panels to power the ...

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean ...

The Southern Ocean, encircling Antarctica and extending northwards to about 60° south latitude, contains some of the world’s ...