UTRECHT, Netherlands — Some experts fear a massive drifting iceberg known as A23a is currently on a collision course with South Georgia Island, threatening to disrupt the breeding grounds of ...

Could Antarctica have already had an ice cap in the warm period of the late Eocene? And how could these icebergs survive in the warm ocean conditions prevalent around Antarctica at that time? A core ...

During the late Eocene epoch, Earth was generally warmer than it is today ... Today, human-driven warming threatens to shift the balance between ice accumulation and melt in Antarctica even faster.

"But Antarctica is not an apolitical human paradise with untouched nature—a sort of continent for scientific inquiry alone.

A pair of researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada, working with a colleague from the Scripps Institution of ...

South African authorities have put a crew member of a remote research team at the South African National Antarctic Expedition (SANAE) IV base in Antarctica under psychological evaluation after ...

Scientists at a remote research base in Antarctica have pleaded for their rescue, alleging assault, sexual harassment and death threats from a team member they say is mentally unstable.

Johannesburg — It sounds like the plot of a horror movie. Researchers stuck on a remote research base in Antarctica send an email out to the world, pleading for help as a colleague is accused of ...

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed ...

A lucky group of scientists were able to explore a never-before-seen part of the Antarctic after an ice shelf broke, revealing newly exposed seafloor and a previously inaccessible ecosystem ...