Antarctica is like no place on Earth. The "White Continent" has lured explorers and scientists to its stunning, ice-encrusted landscape for two centuries. Countries have tried to carve up Antarctica ...

Scared was too strong a word to describe how I was feeling en route to Antarctica. I was nervous—uneasy, really. Our ship, the National Geographic Explorer, had just departed Ushuaia, the Argentinian ...

Night - Mostly clear. Winds N. The overnight low will be 77 °F (25 °C). Mostly sunny with a high of 87 °F (30.6 °C). Winds variable at 5 to 13 mph (8 to 20.9 kph). Partly cloudy today with a ...

The 1602 Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (Chinese world map ... stations. Antarctica's so-called 'penguin post office' (pictured) is the most southerly in the world, and processes up to 80,000 letters and ...

Job openings so cool they are practically ice cold have opened up. Antarctica NZ is looking for a crew of 40 to join Scott Base for the 2025/26 research season - and you do not need to be a scientist.

This June will be 10 years since he died, and it would have been special to share this trip to Antarctica with him. Maybe a ceremonial offering, such as the spreading of his ashes, could suffice.

But climate change is making it happen more frequently, with ever-larger icebergs in the waters around Antarctica. Researchers from Utrecht University are studying the routes that icebergs ...

But climate change is making it happen more frequently, with ever-larger icebergs in the waters around Antarctica. Researchers are studying the routes that icebergs followed during geological ...

Video / NZ Herald A first-of-its-kind study suggests the worsening melting of Antarctica’s vast ice sheet could directly drive shifts in New Zealand’s local climate patterns. The new study ...