The number of tourists heading to Antarctica has been skyrocketing. From fewer than 8,000 a year about three decades ago, ...

Antarctica is on the top of everyone’s bucket list these days as people spend tens of thousands of dollars to check out the world’s southernmost frozen continent (read: bragging rights). But ...

In 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his 27-man crew set sail on a journey to Antarctica. Their mission? To become the ...

People have been visiting Antarctica for over a century. Today, living in Antarctica is a bit different. Eclectic bands of scientists and support personnel are drawn to the continent and, every ...

Along with the roughly 1,100 other residents of Antarctica scattered across 41 bases occupied through midwinter, one thing is clear at Palmer Station—morale lies in the chef’s hands.

In Antarctica, it’s so cold that the average person needs to consume between 3,200 and 5,000 calories a day. And because the continent is frozen, no food grows there naturally.

Given Antarctica’s complexity and global impact, its state of peril merits this kind of groundbreaking treatment. ... “We do want people to think of it in terms of a conversation,” he says.

Antarctica in 2070 looks much like it does today if we follow the low-emissions trajectory. The point of the paper is that we have a choice. It’s not too late to choose the low-emissions scenario.

Yes, people do visit Antarctica. In the summer months, around 45,000 tourists visit on expedition cruise ships, according to Aurora Expeditions.

We hear a lot about climate wake-up calls. Here’s one you would do well not to ignore: Antarctica had the most extreme heatwave ever recorded. In March 2022, east Antarctica saw temperatures of ...

In more temperate parts of the world, ice is just ice, but in Antarctica, ice is everything. It defines Antarctica: Earth’s southern polar ice cap, a 5.4-million square mile ice sheet, covers 98 ...

Constraining the Mass Balance of East Antarctica. Alba Martin-Español et al. in Geophysical Research Letters , Vol. 44, No. 9, pages 4168–4175; May 16, 2017. Mass Gains of the Antarctic Ice ...