has been discovered in waters off the western Antarctic Peninsula by researchers at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). The species, named in honor of the recently ...

The new protection area, proposed in 2018 by commission members Chile and Argentina, would cover the western Antarctic Peninsula, the northernmost part of the southernmost continent. The peninsula ...

Experts have revealed Antarctica is “more vulnerable” than previously feared, as a new map reveals what lays under the ice. The estimates, created by Bedmap3, have also re-evaluated the ...

Between 1986 and 2021, the area of vegetated land on the Antarctic Peninsula increased from 0.86 to 11.95 square kilometers (0.33 to 4.61 square miles), according to a study published earlier this ...