Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean ...

Endurance athlete Colin O'Brady, celebrated internationally in 2018 as the first person to traverse Antarctica solo and unassisted, is returning to the unforgiving continent for an even more arduous ...

Antarctica's winter sea ice has hit its third-lowest peak in nearly half a century of satellite monitoring, researchers said Tuesday, highlighting the growing influence of climate change on the planet ...

With projects like the Halley VI Antarctic research station under its belt, Hugh Broughton Architects is no stranger to working in extreme environments. The UK firm will need this experience as it has ...

Earlier in 2025, UNSW Sydney Ph.D. candidate Christina Schmidt submitted her thesis—from the deck of Australia's multi-billion-dollar icebreaker, just off the East Antarctic coast. Schmidt's research ...

New research has revealed that East Antarctica’s vast and icy interior is heating up faster than its coasts, fueled by warm air carried from the Southern Indian Ocean. Using 30 years of weather ...

A 20-year-old American pilot and influencer who was attempting to become the first pilot to fly solo to all seven continents has been released from Chilean detention in Antarctica after more than two ...

If you think your job is tough, just be glad you haven’t had to do a tour at an Antarctic research base. A horrifying new workplace survey by the US National Science Foundation is raising alarms about ...

Scientists have gotten their closest-ever view of the denizens that inhabit a frigid underworld. An analysis of the genetic blueprints of nearly 1,400 microbes sampled from one buried Antarctic lake ...

With the conflicts in Europe and the Greater Middle East seemingly frozen, the geopolitics of the world’s polar regions continue to thaw. What few eyes are fixated on the geopolitics of the polar ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great sheet of ice set in contrast ...