The East Antarctic Ice Sheet, a vast expanse spanning over 10 million square kilometers, has long concealed a landscape ...

The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica on a potential collision course with South Georgia, a crucial wildlife breeding ground in the South Atlantic. Satellite imagery suggested ...

New Additions to the Pleistocene Vertebrate Record of California. PaleoBios 15(1-4): 1-80. Long, D.J. 1992. Sharks from the La Meseta Formation (Eocene), Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal ...

Gabriel Boric’s trip to the pole, which his office called the first by a Latin American president, comes amid rising competition for influence in Antarctica. By Eve Sampson Chile’s president ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The world’s biggest iceberg — a 130-foot (40-meter) tall wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is ...

Antarctica's first sighting on January 28, 1820, by Russian explorers FF Bellingshausen and MP Lazarev marked the beginning of unparalleled scientific enquiries and highlighted the continent's ...

Deep under the frozen desert of western Antarctica, a hidden danger slumbers. Lurking beneath the massive, 1–2 kilometer-thick slab of frozen water lies an active volcanic rift, seething away in the ...

Are you looking for truly unique, challenging and rewarding work? We regularly recruit for roles in Antarctica. There are roles at Casey, Davis and Mawson stations. There are also positions on ...

In 1863, a Russian paleontologist and mining engineer made his way through the Eocene strata of the Caucasus to the shores of ...

Antarctic tourism has boomed in recent years with the remote continent attracting record numbers of tourists. In 2024, an astonishing 122,000 people made the trip to Antarctica - a massive ...

A slow climate feedback loop may be bubbling beneath Antarctica’s vast ice sheet. The continent, divided east to west by the Transantarctic Mountains, includes volcanic giants such as Mount ...