Microplastics were found in Antarctica’s only native insect, highlighting how plastic pollution has spread into remote land ...

Locked inside a frozen rock from the edge of the world is a story that began before Earth had oceans, continents or even a ...

A global research team led by researchers from the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water that attack the ice from below. These secretive currents, spinning in the ...

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

The remains of a British researcher who vanished in 1959 in Antarctica when he was 25 years old were discovered amid rocks near a receding glacier and identified using DNA analysis, the British ...

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in Antarctica.