A new study has found evidence that 13th-century Polynesians settled as far south as the Auckland Islands, just 2,000 kilometres from Antarctica.

Recycled Percussion's Justin Spencer has successfully finished his first marathon in the Great World Race. Spencer completed ...

Warming ocean waters are melting Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf at accelerating rates, highlighting a climate-driven trend with ...

Most of the expeditions are still waiting to begin, but the two solo crossings are in progress. Equipment problems are ...

The atmosphere is constantly changing. Its composition has varied regularly over the course of the planet's climatic epochs, ...

Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it supported lush forests.

The discovery of amber in Antarctica has been reported for the first time, as detailed in a recent study published in ...

The analysis of this ice core, a long tube of ice around 10 centimetres in diameter taken from several kilometres deep in ...

Emperor penguins, known as the heaviest and tallest of all penguins, in wild nature can only be found in Antarctica where ...

Thawing ice, from the high peaks to the poles, is producing extraordinarily expensive floods, infrastructure damage and ...

Antarctica, often considered the last pristine wilderness, is undergoing a striking transformation. Once dominated by vast ...

When composer Mason Bates approached Michael Chabon about turning his novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” into ...