Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian ...

In the frigid waters originally hidden below, scientists discovered what appear to be new species of crustaceans, fish and other life forms.

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

On January 13, when an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from Antarctica’s immense George VI Ice Shelf, scientists in a nearby research vessel did something nobody had ever done.

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been ...

Antarctica is coming apart, crumbling into the sea, much, much faster than anybody ever thought possible. After all, it was ...

Scientists uncovered a thriving, never-before-seen ecosystem beneath Antarctica after a giant iceberg broke off.

As the Washington Post reports, researchers aboard the vessel Falkor (too) found an unexpected marine ecosystem beneath a ...

putting it at risk of further collapse. "The George VI Ice Shelf buttresses the largest volume of upstream grounded ice of any Antarctic Peninsula ice shelf," said Alison Banwell, a research ...

The perception of Antarctica as an apolitical haven with untouched nature, solely dedicated to scientific research, is ...

Jano Gibson is the ABC's Antarctic reporter, based in Hobart, Tasmania. Jano previously worked at the ABC's bureau in Darwin, and at the Sydney Morning Herald. He was twice named NT journalist of ...