The clean-up and site restoration of a New Zealand research station in Antarctica has provided valuable lessons on the ...

Tauranga-based Antarctic inland water expert Dr Ian Hawes has played a key role in a landmark clean-up of a former New ...

The Antarctic Dry Valleys represent one of the most extreme terrestrial environments on Earth, characterised by an environment of persistent cold, extreme aridity and oligotrophy. Microbial ...

An ancient landscape, likely once home to rivers and forests, has been found beneath a mile of ice in Antarctica. The area, ...

Antarctica wasn't always a frozen landscape. In fact, it may have once featured lush forests, palm trees, and rivers, ...

These mountains currently restrict the East Antarctic ice sheet as it flows from East Antarctica to low elevations in the Ross Sea." Yet there are significant questions about the past uplift ...

The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys where temperatures will reach up to 100 degrees. High temperatures are expected to last until ...

Scientists have been warning that Antarctica has been losing ice mass at an alarming rate over the past couple decades. The consequences of which will raise sea levels around the world.

It is currently the most visited site in Antarctica, drawing thousands of tourists interested in Antarctic travel and wildlife. In 1944, the site was established as Base A - the first continuously ...

"We've definitely now had detections in most of the seal species in Antarctica," said Dr Meagan Dewar, who recently returned from her fourth research expedition to the continent this year.

From base layers to the best bags, here are the exact items to pack for a once-in-a-lifetime Antarctic adventure. Taryn White is a D.C.-based travel writer who covers a wide range of topics ...