Think about this for a second. What if you could witness something almost no one else gets to see? Antarctica in winter is one of the most extreme, most otherworldly experiences on the planet. I'm not ...

Antarctica has long been known as one of the most forbidding areas on earth, thanks to an inhospitable environment and a lack of any native inhabitants — well, human ones anyway. But there are ...

It may be the middle of summer here, but it is the middle of winter in the southern hemisphere. Temperatures on the East Antarctica Plateau, a giant ice shelf with an average elevation of 11,000 feet, ...

Antarctica's winter sea ice has hit its third-lowest peak in nearly half a century of satellite monitoring, researchers said Tuesday, highlighting the growing influence of climate change on the planet ...

Three staff members from a United States research base in Antarctica were medically evacuated to New Zealand during extreme cold and dark conditions amid the southern winter, New Zealand’s air force ...

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

In a small, refrigerated room at a Brussels university, parka-wearing scientists chop up Antarctic ice cores tens of thousands of years old in search of clues to our planet's changing climate. In the ...

Ice floating on the surface of the sea in the western Antarctic peninsula in 2016 - Copyright AFP/File EITAN ABRAMOVICH Ice floating on the surface of the sea in the ...