Those are the words of a former Antarctic tour guide we interviewed. For anyone interested in nature, few jobs sound more ...

In some areas, krill is becoming less reliable for the penguins.

Scientists may be able to reliably forecast Antarctic ice loss through the middle of this century, offering governments a ...

Alessandro Antonello is Associate Professor of Environmental History at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is the author of The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China has drafted a law on Antarctic affairs, as Beijing looks to protect its interests and strengthen its role in the governance ...

All over the world, the climate is changing. As the world gets warmer, pools of meltwater have begun to form on glaciers. Scientists have now used computational models to show that snow that is ...

Many of us perceive Antarctica as a distant and mysterious corner of the world. The coldest and most wind-swept region on Earth was the last continent to be discovered. Today, it stands as a nature ...

Driven in part by fears that the frozen landscapes of Antarctica may be irreversibly melting away because of climate change, tourism to the bottom of the world is soaring. And experts warn that with ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...