Scientists have discovered a thriving estuarine ecosystem beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, teeming with diverse ...

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10) and crew returned to the United States, arriving in San Francisco Sunday, following a 128-day deployment to Antarctica in support of Operation Deep ...

For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming. Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the ...

A new species of Antarctic dragonfish, Akarotaxis gouldae or Banded Dragonfish, has been discovered in waters off the western Antarctic Peninsula. The species, named in honor of the recently ...

I spent a year in Antarctica. Here’s what I learned living through nine months of darkness and -112F temperatures - IN FOCUS: Every year, a few thousand people deploy to live on Antarctic research ...

Ice loss in Antarctica and its impact on the planet—sea level rise, changes to ocean currents and disturbance of wildlife and food webs—has been in the news a lot lately. All of these threats were ...

Scanning electron micrograph of very small and numerous bacterial cells inhabiting icy brine channels in Antarctica’s Lake Vida, which lies in the Victoria Valley, one of the northernmost of the ...