Things are heating up in the icy south, and not just because of climate change. We check in with this season's polar ...

Antarctica's isolation and rich natural resources have made it a strategically important focal point amid growing great-power ...

While continental in scale, the ozone hole over the Antarctic was small in 2025 compared to previous years and remains on track to recover later this century, NASA and the ...

The South Pole and the rest of East Antarctica is cold now and was even more frigid during the most recent ice age around 20,000 years ago -- but not quite as cold as previously believed. University ...

Antarctica's ozone hole is showing significant recovery, appearing smaller and breaking up earlier this year. Scientists ...

In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...

(CNN) — In a year of extreme heat, Antarctica’s last six months were the coldest on record. “For the polar darkness period, from April through September, the average temperature was -60.9 degrees ...

No woman is known to have voyaged to Antarctica. Believing that many a U. S. and British woman wants to go there, Lieut.-Commander J. R. Stenhouse announced in London last week that he will make ...

Tourism in the polar regions is nothing new. It’s been available for decades. Historically polar travel, both in the Arctic and in Antarctica, was by cruise ships that sailed along the periphery of ...

Glaciologists analyzed Antarctic ice cores to understand the continent's air temperatures during the most recent glacial period. The results help understand how the region behaves during a major ...