The "White Continent" has lured explorers and scientists to its stunning, ice-encrusted landscape for two centuries.

Reports of assault were first reported last weekend by South Africa’s Sunday Times newspaper, which claimed to have seen a ...

A media storm blew up in mid-March 2025 when a researcher at South Africa's isolated Sanae IV base in Antarctica accused one ...

For all of human history, Antarctica has been ice-covered and desolate. Now, a new model shows the hidden continent beneath ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers could have dramatic global consequences.

Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important research but the continent’s delicate geopolitics.

Around 10,000 scientists and support staff work for 18 countries on stations around the continent ... Dudeney spent two consecutive winters in Antarctica early in his career, and told The ...

Will McGough thought he’d scatter his father’s ashes in Antarctica for a special tribute. But once there, he learned that wouldn’t work as planned in this special, delicate environment.

Antarctica is like no place on Earth. The "White Continent" has lured explorers and scientists to its stunning, ice-encrusted landscape for two centuries. Countries have tried to carve up ...