Learn more about the rock library that holds ancient rocks and clues from the Transantarctic Mountains.

The best outdoor adventure links of the past seven days, from taking up free-diving at 40 to a bear attack in Romania to the ...

The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...

In a feedback of fire and ice, thinning ice sheets over geologic hot spots could allow more eruptions, while increased ...

My reflections on the privations, hazards and delights of a summer spent as a surveyor in the amazing, unique Antarctic landscape By Andrew Turk, a member of Fremantle-Tangney Greens who enjoyed a lon ...

Learn how emperor penguins adopt a complex choreography to form a huddle to stay warm in bitter Antarctic winds.

Retreating glaciers — rivers of ice shrinking back as the world warms — are the most tangible and direct evidence of climate ...

This Norwegian village takes "polar night" to the extreme, but thanks to modern technology, you can enjoy a sunny, recreation-filled alpine getaway.

A Himalayan village in Nepal has vanished — emptied by climate change. Samjung, perched in the high-altitude Upper Mustang region, was once home to a few dozen yak herders and barley farmers.

Mountains, sub-glacial lakes, hidden valleys, even remnants of lost civilizations: what lies under Antarctica’s vast 2,000-metre thick ice sheet has long been a mystery akin to the depths of the ocean ...

METEOROLOGICAL observation in the Antarctic is of great importance to long-range weather prediction throughout the Southern Hemisphere. The wild and frigid storms originating over the great glacial ...

Would you travel four days to go to Antarctica? No? I did. Two days to get there and two to get back, but in between were ...