With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

A skull fossil uncovered in Antarctica may be the oldest modern bird ever found-a creature the size of a mallard […] ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is recruiting chefs, plumbers, and electricians to live and work at the South Pole. And, if the opportunity to work alongside penguins wasn't appealing enough ...

I n the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica, there lives a species of sponge known as the giant volcano sponge ( Anoxycalyx ...

Another classic Antarctic adventure is found in the pages written by Admiral Richard Bryd, who spent eight months alone living in a remote cabin on the White Continent in 1937. A firsthand account ...

If you think you can brave the elements, consider moving to these regions where bone-chilling temperatures are the norm.

Darren Edwards knows a lot about hopelessness; one minute, he was rock climbing in North Wales about to finish his route, and ...

One hundred and twenty five thousand people visited Antarctica last year. Can the region cope with an ever growing tourism ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame? When you purchase through links on ...

These tiny creatures may be no bigger than your little finger, but scientists plan to start counting them from space. Knowing ...