Darren Edwards knows a lot about hopelessness; one minute, he was rock climbing in North Wales about to finish his route, and ...

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A pilot explained why commercial planes don't fly over Antarctica, the fifth largest continent on Earth. There's a lot of ...

As I embarked the Seabourn Venture in Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world, I knew my mission to play golf ...

A Reddit user believes they’ve found a face peering back at them in a Google Earth image from Antarctica. The satellite ...

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...

Antarctica’s eerie Blood Falls puzzled scientists worldwide. Was it a frozen crime scene, ancient bacteria, or something even ...

Australian Antarctic Program scientists have released the most comprehensive database of species living in the ice-free areas ...

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The world's largest invertebrate remained hidden from humanity until a tantalising glimpse 100 years ago. But it would be ...