When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) - the first UK published, ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

The world's largest invertebrate remained hidden from humanity until a tantalising glimpse 100 years ago. But it would be ...

Although February is still peak severe weather season, the majority of extreme events this month are being exacerbated by abnormally warm waters off our coastlines.

Andrew Babbin tries to pack light for work trips. Along with the travel essentials, though, he also brings a roll each of ...

Antarctica's first sighting on January 28, 1820, by Russian explorers FF Bellingshausen and MP Lazarev marked the beginning of unparalleled scientific enquiries and highlighted the continent's ...

January’s record heat highlights how human-driven ocean warming is increasingly overwhelming natural climate cooling patterns ...

A grove of ancient trees, including Tasmania's oldest-known Huon pine tree, has come under threat by an ongoing bushfire.

According to his coördinates, he was on the Titan Dome, an ice formation near the South Pole that rises ... arm of the Atlantic Ocean, and headed for Antarctica. As Alfred Lansing detailed ...

Adaptation can also involve changing how and where people live, prohibiting them from rebuilding in areas that repeatedly ...

A freeze warning is in place for several California counties, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). While four ...