The boring answer is that Antarctic missions usually fall under the jurisdiction of their home country. For example, the ...

The great majority of ships operating in Antarctica are ice-strengthened but Ponant’s Le Commandant Charcot is the world’s ...

Strip away Antarctica’s ice and the familiar white disc at the bottom of the map dissolves into something far stranger: a broken ring of mountains, deep basins and flooded valleys that would redraw ...

The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...

The New York Times went on an expedition to study Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers. CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times For much of January and February, Raymond Zhong, a New York ...

Scientists have drawn up the most accurate map of Antarctica, offering background to the continent’s response to climate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet ...

I keep my Mont Helios jacket on the back of my seat at every meal because it is warm enough to wear outside over the top of ...

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where ...

Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the sun sets in April and ...