Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For ...

Antarctica lies at the South Pole. In mountainous areas temperatures fall to -60 °c. In mountainous areas temperatures fall to -60 °c. Look at this slideshow to see how the position of the Earth ...

A decade ago, a thick layer of ice covered the Collins Glacier on Antarctica's King George Island. Now, the rocky landscape is visible to the naked eye, in a region that is both a victim of and a ...

Antarctica, by its mere existence, regulates the global climate with its vast ice sheet reflecting most of the sunlight it ...

It is so cold where UAB marine biologist James McClintock, Ph.D. at McMurdo Station on the Ross Sea chose to begin his polar research career that he and his team had to drill and blast their way ...