The East Antarctic Ice Sheet, a vast expanse spanning over 10 million square kilometers, has long concealed a landscape ...

Robert Machray, a veteran actor known for roles in Cheers as well as numerous other sitcoms and Broadway shows, died at his ...

A team of scientists has uncovered a million-year-old ice core in Antarctica that could unlock critical climate history ...

A team consisting of 38 international scientists and crew set sail on Tuesday from Wellington capital of New Zealand for Antarctica to venture furth ...

A group of 20 scientists from New Zealand - and abroad - are about to head to the bottom of the world to study the impacts of climate change on Antarctica's Ross Sea.

By drilling 1.7 miles beneath the icy surface, the team has pulled a 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctic bedrock.

As BBC News filmed with scientists in the Antarctic Peninsula, one whale used its four-metre-long fin to sweep a net of bubbles around its prey and trap them, known as "bubble-netting".

Antarctic sea ice has declined at a slower-than-normal pace since mid-November, erasing the record and near-record low extents of October and November and finishing the year very close to the 1981 to ...

From 2005 to 2010, the PMEL researchers took their acoustic survey to the area around the Drake Passage, between the tip of South America and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica, and to the ...

On this day in 1902, the Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott attained a Farthest South at 82°17′S in Antarctica. The Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially ...