The Latest Breaking News from Antarctica

Scientists are surveying remote areas of Antarctica with drones, hoping to protect plants and animals in the fragile ecosystems in the face of climate change.

Every year four lucky applicants get an opportunity to work at the most remote post office in the world - a job that includes penguin counting! The post “It’s Life-changing”: World’s Most Remote Post Office Is Hiring 4 Postmasters first appeared on Bored Panda.

A gunshot interrupts the peaceful sleep of a leopard seal, lying nonchalantly on a small piece of ice floating in the shadow of an Antarctic glacier.

A 100km-long curtain moored to the Amundsen Sea bed in Antarctica could prevent catastrophic flooding elsewhere, say scientists

Explore the mystery of the missing underwater vehicle, Ran, beneath Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier. Its loss hampers research on potential sea-level rise.

Emperor penguins are the largest but least prevalent Antarctic penguin species, with scientists estimating a total population of about 600,000

Anna McMorrin says Labour ‘absolutely determined’ on net zero after visiting Antarctica and finding report by her father, a polar researcher

Exclusive: Prof Matt King says accelerated melting could transform country and affect viability of some agricultural industries

Donna Urquhart takes 26 days to break the endurance record in some of the harshest conditions on Earth

When I was working on my book Antarctica in Fiction, friends and colleagues would joke about what an easy task I had taken on. How many writers would choose to set a novel in a continent with no permanent human population? Surely a dozen or so books would cover it.

British Army medical officer, Captain Harpreet Chandi, becomes fastest woman to ski solo across Antarctica, inspiring others to step outside their comfort ...