Every year, a few thousand people deploy to live on Antarctic research stations — and go through punishing survival training ...

With US investment in polar science under threat, scientists hope that China’s interest in the region will benefit research.

You may think your commute is brutal, but what does it take to get to your job at the most remote place on Earth?

An Australian medical team has arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand, after departing the U.S. McMurdo Station in Antarctica where it rescued an expedition member who suffered a medical emergency.

A major international competition to design a new scientific research station at one of the Earth’s most extreme environments – Antarctica – is launched this week by British Antarctic Survey ...

How Antarctica tells the story of global climate change 04:01. Medical facilities are limited at the research station, and only around 20 people live there during the southern hemisphere's winter ...

Halley VI, opened last year, is the first Antarctic research station to have the capacity to stand up and wander over to another spot on the ice to escape burial-by-snow.