Arctic sea-ice is currently at its smallest recorded extent for the time of year, while Antarctic sea-ice is close to a new ...

Despite Antarctica not belonging to any state, as many as seven countries have made historical territorial claims on it.

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

developed and issued two guiding documents to serve as roadmaps for this effort: the 2022 National Strategy for the Arctic ...

Roman Vilfand noted another anomaly - in the Antarctica, at the South Pole, where the ice area is 5% below average ...

There is an “icebreaker gap” between Russia and the United States. For decades, the Soviet Union and now Russia have ...

The Antarctic Treaty System has been long heralded as a model of international cooperation. It has successfully maintained ...

Fyodor Konyukhov is in good health, he told the captain of the ship that he intends to continue the journey across the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean to Australia ...

Male crabs of a species named after actor David Hasselhoff grow bigger claws than females so they can fight each other for a ...

While colder temperatures have been recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica (minus 128.6 degrees on July 21, 1983) and Klink ...

Two weather stations in Northern B.C., including Fort St. John, recorded lower temperatures than Antarctica on February 3rd.

Antarctica is a place rife with opportunities for discovery, but strangely enough, the discovery of the continent itself is something of a contested topic.