The Latest Breaking News from Antarctica

Ethan Guo, 19, has been accused by Chile of submitting a false flight plan and landing in Antarctica without permission

ANALYSIS: Tourism growth is terrible for the icy continent, write Darla Hatton MacDonald and Elizabeth Leane

On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice free. Scientists were able to reach places never sampled before.

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015, the frozen continent has lost sea ice similar to the size of Greenland. That ice hasn’t returned, marking the largest global environmental change during the past decade.

The TV presenter and Dan Snow scaled the rigging of the historic ship in Dundee and then abseiled back to the ground.

Despite working on polar science for the British Antarctic Survey for 20 years, Louise Sime finds the magnitude of potential sea-level rise hard to comprehend

An unusual gust of frigid air extending from Antarctica has blasted the small South American nation of Uruguay

The whales migrate from feeding grounds in Antarctica to breeding areas off Australia’s coast in the winter

When visiting Godrevy beach on the north Cornish coast, most people look out to sea at the lighthouse, surfers and seals rather than the cliffs behind. But these cliffs hold a history of past climate and sea level that is incredibly valuable to scientists like me who are trying to…