With Antarctica's climate warming at an unprecedented rate, scientists are battling with dangerously thin ice and equipment falling through into the sea.

"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

Reading up on Antarctica's natural history and golden age of exploration can make your trip more entertaining and educational ...

Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more ...

The world’s largest iceberg, A23a, is heading north from Antarctica toward South Georgia, a British Overseas Territory in the ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the ...

The ice, some of the oldest drilled ... the candidate areas to find the right site before drilling started.” Little Dome C is high on the central Antarctic plateau, reaching an altitude of ...

But if there’s one destination you want to study up on before going, it’s Antarctica. The landscape of Antarctica tends to hide its secrets under ice, snow, and fog, and, knowing the history ...

A voyage to the great White Continent is both a dream come true and a call to arms, to protect our icy poles and, in turn, ...

With Antarctica's climate warming at an ... This is because sea ice there is far less reliable than before. When the climate was cooler, he and colleagues used to place waterproof suitcases ...