Ethan Guo, 19, has been accused by Chile of submitting a false flight plan and landing in Antarctica without permission ...

THIS is the astonishing moment a pair of orcas was spotted kissing – with tongues – for the first time ever in the wild. The ...

Proudly Howick born and bred, he started out as an electrical apprentice and ended up having a decorated career in the Royal ...

The first record of termites in a polar region provides key insights into what these ancient forests were like ...

From European arrival in 1492 and colonization in the 1500s, the introduction of disease, mostly smallpox, resulted in ...

For more than a century, Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton's 144-foot long ship "Endurance" was lost off the coast of Antarctica beneath the icy Weddell Sea. In 2022, the ship was found ...

In 1976, the highest temperature was set in Cheltenham on 3 July and was recorded as 35.9C, which was then a record until ...

In Antarctica, midwinter’s day is a big deal. I’m incredibly lucky to be celebrating it south of 60 degrees latitude onboard a British research ship for the first time in more than a century.

Professor Lloyd Peck of the British Antarctic Survey says warming seas are putting polar ecosystems at serious risk, with lasting consequences. “If the Earth warms up, the first places to ...

11. Strange radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Pulse Transient Antenna (ANITA), they came from the depths of the continent's ice. Researchers were puzzled by this finding. The signals came ...

Ice cores are a pretty good way to get an idea of the Earth's atmosphere in the ancient past, thanks to their ability to trap bubbles of gas within them. "Like a prehistoric fly trapped in amber ...