One sunny spot in the southern hemisphere is both the smallest continent in the world and a country in its own right.

Weatherproof jackets, waterproof gloves, merino wool everything—our intrepid writer’s polar wardrobe has her prepared for any cold-weather adventure.

This type of journey usually starts in Cape Town, South Africa, where you fly private to an ice runway on mainland Antarctica ...

Scientists have discovered amber in the sediment core recovered from thousands of feet below the surface of the Antarctic, a ...

One of Antarctica's greatest mysteries remained so for decades. Blood Falls, as the name suggests, is a haunting bloody red ...

Antarctica's waterbodies and mountains of ice make it a continent like no other. The sheer immensity of the ice sheet is staggering. Its weight can deform the globe should it melt, with sea levels ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

It's one of the most spectacular places on earth, but scientists are continuing to sound the alarm, that the future of Antarctica and the world is under threat. At a conference in Hobart, scientists ...