The voyage marked the first successful verification of networked communications across the Arctic, Antarctica and the Qinghai ...

Antarctica is the highest, driest, windiest and coldest continent in the world. The Antarctic continent is a land mass covered with ice up to 4 km thick. The highest point is around 4 km above sea ...

Plants in Antarctica are growing more quickly due to climate change, which could represent a potential tipping point for the region’s changing ecosystem. Scientists have already observed increased ...

Antarctica facts reveal red waterfalls, hidden lakes, white-blooded fish, singing ice, a lava lake, and other real phenomena ...

Yucheng Lin, City University of Hong Kong and Robert Kopp, Rutgers University Sea-level rise is one of the most visible signs ...

Antarctica has no government, no permanent population, and no economy. It also, since 1959, has had no legally recognized owner as the Antarctic Treaty freezes every territorial claim on the continent ...

Computer models suggest that unrealistically cold oceans would be insufficient to stop Thwaites glacier retreating, although ...

Ship anchoring practices date back a few thousand years to the earliest days of seafaring (Thomson, 1902). However, the footprint of modern anchoring, as with many other human impacts to the seabed (e ...

Flights to Antarctica require meticulous planning, survival training, and spare parts for aircraft. Widebody jets like the Boeing 767, Airbus A340, and 787 Dreamliner have made historic landings in ...

Antarctica lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice between 1992 and 2017, according to a new analysis of satellite observations. In vulnerable West Antarctica, the annual rate of ice loss has tripled during ...

From penguin colonies to polar camping, find out when to go, how to get there, and what to expect on your first expedition.