When the crew aboard an ocean science expedition learned that an iceberg the size of Chicago had broken off from an Antarctic ice shelf, they knew they had to stop what they were doing immediately ...

The literature of Antarctic exploration is focused on the well-known early 20th-century expeditions by Robert Falcon Scott ... to penetrate the Antarctic continent and the last hurrah of the great age ...

Fans of polar exploration might already be familiar with Otto Nordenskjold and the 1901–1904 Swedish Antarctic Expedition.

Members of the British Services Antarctic Expedition 2012 on Tuesday marked the 100th anniversary of the day Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated team reached the South Pole, as their own ...

The expedition ran 70 days on a Russian icebreaker, a ship that can cross through frozen seas and navigate near the glaciers surrounding the Antarctic. “Brazil has no icebreakers and there are ...

Scientists uncovered a thriving, never-before-seen ecosystem beneath Antarctica after a giant iceberg broke off.

In a part of the world where throughout history only the pure white of snow and ice could be seen, today green moss and grass are emerging. Fish and penguins have begun to migrate south in search ...

A Leeds Central Library worker brought a captivating photo album from an Antarctic expedition to the show, explaining her discovery: "I just found it on the shelves and I was really intrigued by ...

China's 41st Antarctic expedition team has successfully retrieved the country's first Antarctic ecological subsurface mooring buoy, which was deployed in the Amundsen Sea in early 2024.

"The ice loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a major contributor to sea level rise worldwide," said expedition co-chief scientist Sasha Montelli, a researcher at University College London.