Europe's dedicated polar-monitoring satellite has produced its sharpest view yet of the shape of Antarctica. The Cryosat mission has been measuring height changes on the White Continent since 2010 ...

Chrissie: Well, Antarctica is way down in the middle of the Southern Ocean, so we’ll need a map that’s looking right down on it. Freya: Ah, that’s better, it looks loads bigger than the UK!

The rapidly melting Antarctic ice sheet could trigger the eruption ... Many eruptions would be hidden from view, occurring beneath the thick layers of remaining ice, but their impact could extend ...

The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica was discovered in the 1980s. It begins to form each year in August and reached its maximum size late September or early October, before closing from mid ...

Scientists say they have tapped into an extraordinary archive of the Earth’s climate in the ice deep beneath Antarctica. They hope it will help them understand both how the climate changed in ...