BEIJING -- As China's Qinling Station, the youngest of the country's five scientific research stations in the Antarctic, ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

Tiny fragments of plastic have been found scattered in snow across multiple Antarctic deep field camps. What’s worrying about ...

Whereas the Arctic Region is the natural home for Polar Bears, the Antarctic is the natural habitat for many different types of Penguin and these animals play a part in both of the featured episodes.

Researchers unveil a new map and classification system that will help protect the unique plants and animals of Earth's most remote and fragile continent.

is present and provide dating of the rocks beneath the ice to determine when this Antarctic region was last ice-free. “It was exciting to see the ice age as we drilled deeper, and especially ...

Tóth. The classification and maps are critical foundations to inform and support management and conservation of the Antarctic region through the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the ...

Australian Antarctic Program scientists have released the most comprehensive database of species living in the ice-free areas ...

A spokeswoman for Mr Brooks said today that the men had been on their way from Chile to the Antarctica region when they were forced to ditch the helicopter into the sea. She was unable to give any ...

Antarctica's first sighting on January 28, 1820, by Bellingshausen and Lazarev marked the beginning of unparalleled ...

In the ice cap region near China's Zhongshan Station in Antarctica, a domestically developed six-legged robotic dog completes ...