An adventurer from a village near Banbury has ambitions to become the first British person to complete an 870-mile solo trek ...

Barbara Wienecke, a seabird researcher at the Australian Antarctic Division, explained that emperor penguins have ...

Because they can store fat in their humps to help them survive in dry environments, camels may go up to six months without ...

New Australian research using satellite imagery to monitor the location of emperor penguin colonies in East Antarctica, shows ...

The cross originally stood in Grytviken, South Georgia, and was built to honour Sir Ernest Shackleton who died there in 1922.

This terrific National Geographic film looks at both the explorer’s ill-fated 1915 expedition to Antarctica, and a new one to ...

World’s only luxury ice breaker offers unique polar expeditions. While New Zealand has an intimate relationship with the ...

A Toronto photographer is highlighting the effects of climate change in Antarctica as part of a new photo exhibition.Neil ...

The fifth-largest continent, the magical Antarctica, which dominates the South Pole in all its mysterious isolation, began to ...

Beijing’s geopolitical manoeuvres continue to challenge crucial conservation efforts in one of the planet’s most fragile ecosystems, according to a new report.

It is on the Brunt Ice Shelf, which is the floating protrusion of glaciers that have flowed off the Antarctic continent into ...