In the endless white expanse, a small mound broke the horizon. As explorer Matthieu Tordeur and glaciologist Heïdi Sevestre skied towards it, they saw a golden head emerging from the snow. It was the ...

For Antarctic veterans and novices alike, the first sighting of an iceberg on an expedition stays “closest to your heart.” By Raymond Zhong Reporting from the icebreaker Araon en route to Antarctica.

The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they head there with scientists trying to ...

An Australian national science agency called CSIRO launched an experiment in Antarctica that went terribly wrong — in a way that ended up going wonderfully right. A free-floating ocean robot was sent ...

The Scenic Eclipse will help ring in 2026, live from Antarctica. The Scenic Group ship will be featured during ABC News' New Year's Eve broadcast. It will be the first time that ABC will have New Year ...

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“In this image, I’m collecting faecal samples from Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) on Horseshoe Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula at about 68° S. As an analytical chemist, my research focuses ...

A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s future as the climate warms. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

A team of scientists are staring climate change in the eye, the New York Times reports, setting sail for the infamous “Doomsday Glacier” in Antarctica in an attempt to study it up close. The enormous ...

Between 2021 and 2023, the Antarctic Ice Sheet gained mass at an average rate of approximately 108 gigatons per year, stunning researchers who had been tracking decades of ice loss. From 2021 to 2023, ...