Image: 20 x 14.75 in. (50.8 x 37.46 cm.) Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian photojournalist whose black-and-white prints capture natural environments and the people who inhabit them. He uses his images ...

The newly resurfaced runway at Rothera Research Station BAS The British Antarctic Survey has been modernizing Antarctic infrastructure for future generations of polar scientists. Construction in ...

Russia has discovered huge oil reserves in British territory in Antarctica, according to evidence submitted to the U.K. House of Commons Environment Audit Committee (EAC). The reserves uncovered ...

In addition, sub-Antarctic penguins are warmth-loving, while other species prefer cold conditions Adélie penguins nest on the coast of the entire continent, while other Pygoscelis are tied to ...

Packing for a trip to Antarctica can be challenging—it is one of the most remote environments on Earth, after all. The weather is famously unpredictable and constantly changing, and much of your ...

A man has been reunited with a security card he lost 21 years ago after it was discovered 2,400 miles away underneath the ice of Antarctica. The card was lost by New Zealand music producer David ...

Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ever come back. Look out over Antarctica in the summer, and time seems ...

It sounds like a dream, but it's true in Antarctica, gold rains from the sky. Tucked in among the glaciers, fiery Mount Erebus is the southernmost active volcano on Earth, providing a bit of heat ...

Over the last 25 years, the ozone hole which forming over Antarctica each spring has started to shrink. But over the last four years, even as the hole has shrunk it has persisted for an unusually ...

This could be another sign that West Antarctica is warming, Ukraine's National Antarctic Scientific Centre (NANC) says. The plant was discovered during a seasonal expedition to the northeastern ...

Antarctica's biggest ice shelf is on the move and could trigger icequakes, a new study warns. Researchers found that the Ross Ice Shelf – a platform of ice measuring nearly 200,000 square miles ...

For Antarctic wildlife, exposure to the Sun's damaging rays has increased in recent years, scientists say. A hole in the ozone layer - the protective barrier of gas in the upper atmosphere - now ...