US President Donald Trump has slashed tens of millions in emergency funds, says a senior former diplomat who wrote state policy for the white continent. As China and Russia announce plans to build new ...

Those long decades of work have gradually given rise to a new virtual map of the Antarctic continent, the most detailed look below the ice we've ever had. The product of a new study led by ...

A new detailed map of Antarctica is set to significantly improve predictions of how ice flows and melts in response to climate change, say the scientists behind the project. The map ...

For years, the British Antarctic Survey has been flying planes over the frozen southern continent, using radar, sound waves, and gravity mapping to ascertain the shape of the bedrock sequestered below ...

A team of South African scientists are stuck with an alleged ‘madman’ in a remote Antarctica research station. The group sent an urgent plea via email reporting physical assault, sexual ...

There have been multiple cases of misconduct in Antarctica over the years. In 1959, a scientist at Russia’s Vostok Station allegedly attacked his colleague with an ice axe after losing a game of ...

Researchers were working off the coast of Antarctica when it happened: A gigantic iceberg about 19 miles longcracked off the ice sheet on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen ...

Experts have revealed Antarctica is “more vulnerable” than previously feared, as a new map reveals what lays under the ice. The estimates, created by Bedmap3, have also re-evaluated the ...

Antarctica is more vulnerable than previously thought it has emerged, after the most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath its ice sheet was put together by a team of international scientists led ...