The vessel, which sank in November 1915, had structural shortcomings, including weak deck frames and no diagonal beams to ...

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean ...

Endurance athlete Colin O'Brady, celebrated internationally in 2018 as the first person to traverse Antarctica solo and unassisted, is returning to the unforgiving continent for an even more arduous ...

Nivada Grenchen’s Antarctic series is well known among enthusiasts as one of the most influential and storied explorer’s watches ever made. But the Antarctic GMT was so obscure before its 2024 revival ...

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile -- An American social media influencer who was stuck in a Chilean airbase in Antarctica for two months and initially charged for submitting a false flight plan, on Saturday ...

Ethan Guo, a young American pilot and influencer who spent the past two months detained at a Chilean military base in Antarctica, was released back to the mainland on Saturday. Guo, 20, also agreed to ...

A 20-year-old American pilot and influencer who was attempting to become the first pilot to fly solo to all seven continents has been released from Chilean detention in Antarctica after more than two ...

If you think your job is tough, just be glad you haven’t had to do a tour at an Antarctic research base. A horrifying new workplace survey by the US National Science Foundation is raising alarms about ...

Scientists have gotten their closest-ever view of the denizens that inhabit a frigid underworld. An analysis of the genetic blueprints of nearly 1,400 microbes sampled from one buried Antarctic lake ...

With the conflicts in Europe and the Greater Middle East seemingly frozen, the geopolitics of the world’s polar regions continue to thaw. What few eyes are fixated on the geopolitics of the polar ...

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports on the disintegration of A-23a, once the world’s largest and oldest iceberg. Originally nearly a trillion tons and more than twice the ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great sheet of ice set in contrast ...