The Latest Breaking News from Australian Antarctic Division

After two seasons of record-breaking lows, Antarctica’s sea ice remains in dramatic decline, tracking well below any winter maximum levels observed since satellite monitoring began during the late 1970s.

An Australian who fell ill while working at an Antarctic research station is now in a hospital in Australia after being rescued by an icebreaker

I know many people born in 1961 – they are my contemporaries and friends. It doesn’t seem so long ago. Their lives and experiences seem modern to me. They don’t seem old: certainly, none of them have problems working their iPhones. And yet, 60 years is aeons ago when it…

An independent review of workplace culture at the Australian Antarctic Division has found one-in-four female staff respondents had experienced workplace sexual harassment, with the majority in Antarctic stations.

A landmark study projects dramatic changes in ocean circulation in the Southern Ocean over the next three decades, with wide-reaching impacts on weather and fishery populations.

Plan to triple size of Macquarie Island protection zone to shield ‘remote wildlife wonderland’

An area roughly the size of Germany is set to be added to Australia's protected marine zones, safeguarding the future of millions of penguins, seals and sea birds on Macquarie Island.

To get a full picture of what the weather is doing requires a presence on far away places — and that means things get a little, or a lot, chilly.

Macquarie Island resupply mission will now be carried out by a smaller chartered ship, delaying some scientific research