Emperor penguins incubate their eggs in Antarctica in winter ... PHOTOGRAPHED AT BLANK PARK ZOO, DES MOINES, IOWA There is, however, one critical ability that human beings have and birds do ...

Many of us perceive Antarctica as a distant and mysterious corner of the world. The coldest and most wind-swept region on Earth was the last continent to be discovered. Today, it stands as a ...

A media storm blew up in mid-March 2025 when a researcher at South Africa’s isolated Sanae IV base in Antarctica accused one of its nine team members of becoming violent. The Conversation Africa ...

Massive waves pummeled a cruise ship during an Antarctica voyage, video footage from a passenger shows. Lesley Anne Murphy posted clips to Instagram on March 26 that appeared to show the ship ...

Even a senior minister I recently briefed admitted that he had been ignorant of its location; he pointed out that on his children’s globe, Antarctica was covered by the manufacturer’s label.

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released the most detailed map yet of what Antarctica looks like when you strip away its ubiquitous cover of ice and snow. Derived from 60 years of data ...

Researchers were working off the coast of Antarctica when it happened: A gigantic iceberg about 19 miles long cracked off the ice sheet on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen ...

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago that broke off of an Antarctic ice shelf has revealed a thriving ecosystem beneath it, according to researchers. On Jan. 13, the iceberg, named A-84, broke off from ...

With six months of continual darkness, sub-zero conditions and supreme isolation, the Antarctic is the perfect setting for a horror flick in which the environment drives inhabitants to madness.

Johannesburg — It sounds like the plot of a horror movie. Researchers stuck on a remote research base in Antarctica send an email out to the world, pleading for help as a colleague is accused of ...