When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

The gap stayed for several more months and swelled to the size of Switzerland a year later. The hole was located hundreds of ...

Unsure of what Winter Term trip you want to take? Do you have a profound fondness for the Antarctic? Look no further than the ...

Penguin chicks, whose coats are made of fluffy down feathers, aren't as protected from the rain as adult penguins. Getting ...

A giant hole has appeared in the sea ice of Antarctica and it's as big as Switzerland. The sea in Antarctica usually freezes ...

Over 60 scientists set sail on an Antarctica expedition aboard the Russian icebreaker Akademik Tryoshnikov Russia's Vostok Base in Antarctica has opened a new winter complex, the Institute of ...

Byron Adams and students flying on a C-17 military airplane, going from New Zealand to Antarctica. “There was also the time when a kitchen worker didn’t get his winter bonus,” Peter Doran ...

Climate change and this relatively warm winter will accelerate ice melt in Antarctica. The Thwaites Glacier, also called the Doomsday Glacier, continues to melt at an unprecedented rate.

A team of nine scientists at the Sanae IV research station in Antarctica have been upset by ... South Africa on Feb. 1 to spend the Antarctic winter at the station, but on Feb. 27 one person ...

The temperatures in Antarctica are colder than anything we have ever experienced. The average temperature in the winter is -30 degrees Fahrenheit. The coldest temperature ever recorded in ...

Additionally, British scientists recently found that it may now even be raining in Antarctica in the winter. They warn that will have devastating consequences rippling well beyond the land of ...